Manfred Heinze
EiBrot is an art project by Manfred Heinze
(EiBrot is a term for a slice of bread with eggs on it)
The group of works »EiBrot« by Manfred Heinze can be classified in art history as part of time-based and documentary concept art.
The series basically began in 1960, but without having been documented for the first 50 years.
Since 2010 (inspired by his daughter) Manfred Heinze daily has been documenting all the EiBrots that he prepares for himself or that are prepared for him in restaurants.
As with other time-based works of art, this unusual project includes all aspects of processual art. The photographic documentation shows us the individual date, and thus the passage of time. In this way, Manfred Heinze assures himself of his own age and his own experience of time, his own perception of time.
Even if the first 50 years of EiBrot only exist in Manfred Heinze's memory, the project still conveys the knowledge of the past.
Manfred Heinze has also been a member of the Dull Men's Club with his EiBrot project since 2017.
Dr. phil. Andreas Brenne, Professor of Art and Art Education at the University of Osnabrück writes: "For EiBrots are such that they have long since deserved to be elevated to the sphere of art. It is actually a miracle that they were not discovered much earlier."
Hans Ernst, Berlin, 2019
visit EiBrot at instagram.com/eibrot
EiBrot on the radio at WDR 5 (German radio station)
EiBrot on TV NDR HALLO NIEDERSACHSEN (German news show)
