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Tomma Abts (Hardcover)
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Born in Germany and based in London, Tomma Abts has received
considerable acclaim for her paintings and drawings. Her work has
been shown at such major international exhibitions as the Berlin
Biennial (2006) and the Carnegie International (2004), as well as
at prestigious museums across Europe, including Kunsthalle Basel
(2005) and Van Abbemuseum (2004). In 2006 she was awarded the
Turner Prize. Each Tomma Abts painting is the result of an
intuitive process, a complex operation of addition and
substraction. Within rigid parameters - unvarying materials and
size - she conjures a progression of shapes and colours, building
layer upon layer of seemingly spontaneous geometry until the work
reaches its culmination: an abstract arrangement in perfect
tension. This volume, the artist's first extensive monograph,
provides a comprehensive survey of her work, with full-colour
images of thirty-seven paintings, and eighteen drawings, as well as
three specially commissioned essays. In the first essay, Laura
Hoptman dismantles abstraction's historical framework to illustrate
the uniqueness of Abts' approach. Jan Verwoert meditates on the
subversive power of contemplation, findind in Abts' artistic
process a validation of "the beauty of latency." And Bruce Hainley
gazes at Abts' work through the fictional eyes of Margit Carstensen
- actress, muse, and star of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter
Tears of Petra Von Kant.
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