Lula Valletta

Golgotha
paper and glue in a handmade oak wood frame (with glass); 2020

Lula Valletta
The Hague, The Netherlands

STATEMENT

ARPSIANISM MANIFESTO

ARPSIANISM SALUTES GEORG KOLBE
ARPSIANISM IS CONCERNED WITH BLOBS
ARPSIANISM IS DADA RISO
CONTINUING WHERE THE HOBBYHORSES LEFT OFF
FOLDABILITY IS A MUST
ARPSIANISM CARRIES THE COLORS OF ANARCHISM, DE STIJL AND THE NAZIS, WHICH HAPPEN TO BE THE SAME
CRISS-CROSS: SWAP MEANINGS
MAKING THE BEST OF LEFTOVERS
ARPSIANISM IS LAYER UPON LAYER OF MISSIONARY PRINTING
F*CK PERFECTIONISM

BIO

Lula Valletta is a cut-up artist and bibliophile, stuck in purgatory. Desperate of being born about 75 years too late, she tries to pick up where the hobbyhorses of the avant-garde left off; rejecting the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest. She has been cutting and pasting since kindergarten. At the age of 18, she wandered to Berlin for the sake of art, only to return 8 years later poor but sexy after years of being a GlueHead. Together with underdog poet Mr. Pelham she forms the cut-up collective Arpsianism. She gave the world the C.U.M. (Cut-Up Manifesto) and strongly believes that collage is the basis of all art and creation. Specimens of her collage art have been self-published in a series of booklets; an agglomeration of collages into blobs and misprints.

ARTIST CONTACT

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www.lulavalletta.com

IMAGES

mama
paper and glue; 2020
Epileptic Mania Infanticide, from the series IN HYSTERIA
paper and glue; 2020
Smash
paper and glue; 2015
Bombe aus dem Weltraum
paper and glue; 2017