Thomas Hirschhorn is a Swiss-born artist who emerged in the 1990s art world, and known for his giant, labour-intensive, room-sized collages of low grade materials. Tinfoil, cardboard, plywood, plastic and masking tape bring together an infinite variety of debris, including handwritten texts and images culled form popular magazines, miniature toy airplanes and trains, knick-knacks by the hundreds, armies of plastic gold watches, effigies of Nietzsche and Princess Diana, household fans blowing red flags which flutter violently, monitors duct-taped into vitrines, ad infinitum. Borrowing from the languages of installation art, junk art, Pop and others, Hirschhorn´s work comments on the proliferation of consumables (very derived products´ the artist calls them) in our shopping-driven society. ´
