About the Book:
Let us quote the Alroundkünstlertalent this way: “I am Dennis Busch. I live and work in a small town in Germany, Otter Mountain, where I stay with my beautiful wife Kate Hate and our three children. Words that describe my artistically freefalling intention could be: kind shoulderstand laugh about Itself. And I mean laugh to death. I like to work with collage, tip-ex, photography, cheapo abstract objects and silkscreen. It was now urgent at the time, a first comprehensive ‘best of ‘ collection of its fantastic, cryptic collagen to realize the work as a book.”
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Miss Rosen’s Contribution:
Include Me Out includes an essay by Miss Rosen.
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Excerpt from the Essay:
Sometimes I see molecules moving, vibrating beneath the surface, like I ate a bag of shrooms or something equally outrageous. I’m probably not entirely sober, with our without drugs. Like is a cocktail of absurdities and terrors, in equal measure. There’s the friction that comes. Things in motion tend to stay in motion, until they fade away—or explode.
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Dennis Busch gets this. Making chaos out of order and reassembling it as a masterpiece of intention, of subtext, of unlikely juxtapositions and brave, new worlds. And what better way than to re-envision the world than to fashion it your image with a surgical tool. The precision is flawless. The ability to extract context disembodies the subject of narrative, and what is recreated in its place is a dreamscape where nothing is sacred.
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Include Me Out presents Busch’s collages, each one a bon mot, like chocolates laid inside a box of gold leaf, each with that secret center that you want to taste. It is the work of a master possessed of his gift. Busch works in Germany, making his own brand of readymade photography, cutting and collaging and writing charmingly rude messages in white paint over many of the images. He constructs his images from photographs, revising our references until each work circles in on itself like a dream.
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Busch’s provocative iconography is at once awkward, edgy, aggressive, sexy, silly, and sometimes a little sentimental. Busch does not ask simple questions or offer easy answers, but happily thumbs his nose at convention, beauty, and formality. His work is a collection of imperfections, and a love of the absurd. Dada for your nerves.”
—Miss Rosen
Brooklyn, 2015
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Photographs ©Dennis Busch
Cover courtesy of Gudberg Nerger