"Described by The New York Times art critic Roberta Smith as a "precocious art star," German artist (Blinky) Palermo (1943-1977) has been associated with distinct twentieth-century art practices, from abstraction to Minimalism and Conceptual art. But his diverse body of work in fact defies easy classification. Throughout his brief and influential career-leading all the way up to his untimely death at the age of 33 - Palermo executed pain ..."
"Published to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition of August Sander's portrait photography, this book offers a pictorial overview of Sander's work. With his life's work surveyed throughout the book, it includes a selection of his landscapes. The master of camera portraiture, August Sander began photographing people as a boy around the iron-ore mines of his German hometown. Through the course of his life, he built up a ..."
"This is German artist, Jurgen Partenheimer's first exhibition in the UK, a major solo presentation comprising new and recent painting, works on paper, and sculpture. It reveals the interconnectivity of his essentially Modernist practice, especially through its manifestations at different locations, in Ikon Gallery and off-site.Partenheimer's work is rooted in abstraction, but across many forms, expressing connections between art, poetry ..."
"Published to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition of August Sander's portrait photography, this book offers a pictorial overview of Sander's work. With his life's work surveyed throughout the book, it includes a selection of his landscapes. The master of camera portraiture, August Sander began photographing people as a boy around the iron-ore mines of his German hometown. Through the course of his life, he built up a ..."
"A landmark in the history of photography, Citizens of the Twentieth Century completes August Sander's most important and sustained photographic enterprise, an "archive" of twentieth-century man. These emphatically objective photographs from the years of the Kaisers, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and the early Federal Republic make up an unprecedented document of both the individual and the collective recent history of the German ..."
"This survey of Pertti Kekarainen's photography from 1996 to the present is organized by series, from Density to Tila. Kekarainen, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, is a key figure in the Helsinki School, and his goal is to represent invisible but persistent aspects of reality. He takes an unexpectedly old-fashioned direct route to a contemporary end, avoiding digital manipulation and using only mechanical capabilities o ..."
"New York City has served as the inspiration to some of the most spectacular moments in painting. With a storied history in the arts, the city stormed the international art world in the 1950s with Jackson Pollack and the New York School of abstract expressionism. In the 1960s, Andy Warhol’s Factory brought pop art to worldwide attention. And an equally seismic shift is underway with a new generation of promising contemporary painters.New ..."
"Updating the German Expressionist tradition for the postwar European landscape, German artist K.H. Hödicke (born 1938) creates paintings that express dread, revulsion and an existential nausea in city scenes and figure studies. Zombies in a zoo, malevolent birds and satanic children parade before our eyes in a panorama of decay."
"Bekannt wurde Heidi Specker Mitte der 90er-Jahre mit den "Speckergruppen" (1995/96) und anderen Werkreihen, die Betonbauten in den Mittelpunkt stellten - eine Vorwegnahme einer Neubewertung von Nachkriegsarchitektur. Zugleich gehört Specker zu den Pionierender Digitalfotografie. Beinahe all ihren Werken ist gemeinsam, dass sie einer künstlerisch visuellen Untersuchung historischer Werke und Gegebenheiten dienen, indem sie mit dem Blick ..."
"No one has ever seen the human body quite like Thomas Florschuetz. He brings parts of the body--legs, fingers, heels, arms--into view and composes them into photos full of visual impact and confusing vagueness. His own body serves as motif. Not obviously posed or arranged, his body provides the banal photo fragments that reveal their sensual power once theyve been turned into something artificial, unreal. Objects from daily life, too, ..."
"For over 30 years, German painter Albert Oehlen (born 1954) has been building a body of work distinguished by its skeptical questioning of painting as a medium. Instead of turning his back on painting, though, the artist has chosen to engage with this skepticism within the medium itself. Oehlen followed his rude, provocative Neo-Expressionist attacks of the 1980s with a cooler brand of computer-based images in the 1990s, followed by a s ..."
"As a photographer, sculptor and "photographic sculptor," Raimund Kummer is continually redefining the perimeters of sculpture. "For Your Eyes Only" is an artist s book, developed as a sort of glossary built around 16 abstract concepts central to his work: anonymity, studio, self-portrait, stage, sound, body, light, material, model, narration, nature, seeing, mirror, strategy, transformation and time."
"Painter Philip Guston's return to figuration in the late 1960s was plotted and rehearsed in his drawing practice, in which he veered between what he referred to as "pure drawing" (abstract) and figurative drawing (a shoe, a chair, a nail, an open book, a hooded head). As he groped his way into this strange and clunky vocabulary, Guston discovered an incredible world awaiting him, and realized, as he put it, that "I wanted to tell storie ..."
Lukas Glinkowski Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree ââ¬â but weââ¬Ëll see! by ChristophSchreier, Uta Kopp, Lukas Glinkowski Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2021 by Hatje Cantz Verlag 2021-06-24 ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-5047-9, ISBN: 3-7757-5047-9
"A materialist art of painting between popular and underground culture Polish painter Lukas Glinkowski (born 1984) mines art history and comics, and uses unconventional supports such as tiles and mirrors."
"Today revered as one of Europe's master painters, Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser (born 1930) first came to public attention in the mid-1960s as a member of the Nieuwe Visie ("New Vision") group, alongside Roger Raveel, Etienne Elias and Reinier Lucassen-a fraternity of painters interested in reanimating earlier strains of European abstraction. De Keyser's abstractions balance austerity and gentleness, and retrospectively seem to evoke C ..."
"German artist Anna Lea Hucht’s (born 1980) drawings and watercolors present a world as bizarre as it is magical; familiar domestic scenes contain phantom like apparitions, while her sculpture resembles mutant versions of vases and heads. This volume surveys her output of the last decade."
"Norbert Schwontkowski was a solitary artistic mind. Too bizarre and peculiar are his paintings, which renounce all complacency. As a painter of the ‘human condition’, he placed mankind in his disorientation at the centre of his pictorial world. Here, man remains a seeker, for there is no hope in these pictures; neither religion nor art offer a perspective of salvation. Schwontkowski’s pictures convey a deep earnestness, which can nevert ..."