Messensee - Design for Easy Living (Hardcover)

Jurgen Messensee (*1936 in Vienna), one the leading artists of his generation, occupies an important position in the fields of painting and drawing in Austria. Nature is the model for Messensee's work, in particular the human figure, which he dissolves into emblematic forms with an expressive gesture. His works can essentially be regarded as coded appropriations of nature in which manifest symbols such as female swimmers, mouths, or catamarans-distinguishing features of his oeuvre. In recent years Messensee has been supplementing his drawings and paintings with the jet print, greatly enlarging his own drawings and then painting them. In this process, the artist is interested in shifting and manipulating perception: what is real, and what is fiction? This publication presents the various stages of his oeuvre, and texts by Ingried Brugger and Florian Steininger probe its depths.Exhibition schedule: Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, September 4-October 6, 2013

General

Imprint:	Hatje Cantz
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	September 2013
First published:	February 2014
Editors:	Ingried Brugger
Text writers:	Fritz Koreny • Florian Steininger • Reinhold Sturm • Reto Thuring
Dimensions:	305 x 245 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	136
ISBN-13:	978-3-7757-3638-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
LSN:	3-7757-3638-7
Barcode:	9783775736381

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