"One of today’s best-known contemporary artists, New Leipzig School painter Neo Rauch (born 1960) blends the realistic figuration of Social Realism with Surrealism: brightly colored figures parade through upended environments, and multiple historical periods overlap in a single work. Most recognized for his paintings and drawings, Rauch has also created an impressive output of printed works over the past two decades, which visit the same ..."
"The young Leipzig painter Matthias Weischer, born in 1973, depicts suburban interiors that can appear at once pleasantly furnished and ominously vacated. Abstract patterns in wallpaper or carpet suggest households that have been lovingly attended to, but Weischer invests this decor with an oddly noisy insistence, so that its sheer "effect" invades any space a human presence might occupy. Often an entire ceiling or a part of a wall is om ..."
"In his oil paintings, Berlin-based Axel Geis focuses on human figures--be they solitary, paired or arranged in elaborate groups. He draws his motifs primarily from film, removing his models from their narrative context and liberating them from the roles originally assigned to them. Concentrating on recent works, this volume provides a first comprehensive survey."
"Broschiertes BuchDie Ausstellung "Neo Rauch auf Bötzow" gibt mit Gemälden, Grafiken, Papierarbeiten und Skulpturen aus der Sammlung HGN einen Einblick in die rätselhafte Bildwelt des 1960 geborenen Künstlers. Malerei, so Neo Rauch, sei für ihn "die Fortsetzung des Traums mit anderen Mitteln." Versatzstücke der Wirklichkeit sind in neue Zusammenhänge gebracht und verschlüsselt. So zielt Rauch scheinbar auf eine Deutung und sabotiert sie ..."
"Catalogus bij een tentoonstelling van zes hedendaagse schilders: Tjebbe Beekman, MartinEder, Aaron van Erp, Rezi van Lankveld, David Schnell, Matthias Weischer ..."
"Perhaps no single technology has defined the postwar world as much as the automobile. The automobile has shaped our physical landscape--our personal, geographical and atmospheric space--as well as our mental world. Since the 1960s, artist Wolf Vostell has been addressing the automobile--as design object, as modern icon, and as an invention capable of shaping and altering the world around it--in ''auto-sculptures'' and performances. Vost ..."
"Vostell later develops the subject further in his happenings and video art while Lurie takes up writing. In 1964 the artists met in New York and began a lifelong friendship-this is the first exhibition to present their works together."