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In 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by
Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and
Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of
pollen and beeswax. The publication documents impressively this
unique and spectacular art event. Following an invitation from the
Museo Novecento in Florence, Wolfgang Laib - one of the outstanding
artists of the present day - created five works in four of the
city's main sights, including the convent of San Marco and the
Pazzi Chapel. In their juxtaposition with the historic
masterpieces, the delicate pollen sculptures and the imposing
beeswax ziggurat cause the contrast between present and past,
physical place and endless space, and real and spiritual life to
become blurred and lead us towards the central questions of life.
"John Cage (Los Angeles 1912-New York 1992), by many considered the
most influential musician in the second half of the 20th century,
has decisively shaped our notion of artistic avant-garde--in music
as well as in literature and the visual arts.
John Cage studied architecture, ethnic music and composition,
taking free private counterpoint and analysis lessons under Arnold
Schonberg. Influenced by Marcel Duchamp and Dada, Cage studied Zen
Buddhism with Zen master Daisetsu Suzuki and staged spontaneous
activities and happenings in the early fifties. In his later life
he became a creator of fine visual art works, predominantly on
paper. Vol.I of the John Cage Catalogue Raisonne of Visual art work
features his Ryoanji works for the first time published in a book.
Referring to the Kyoto Ryoanji Garden and executed in pencil or
etching on paper that is evocative of raked sand, they depict the
contours of fifteen stones. "
In 1926 22 year - old Dutchman Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997)
travelled to the USA on a British freighter - without papers and
hidden in the machine room. The young art student eked out a living
by painting houses, signs and facades, before he was able aft er
eight years to dedicate himself entirely to painting. In the United
States he established contacts with the art scene and forged
friendships with artists such as Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline,
Clifford Still, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Today De Ko oning
belongs to the outstanding painters of Abstract Expressionism and
together with Jackson Pollock is regarded as a pioneer of Action
Painting. This publication vividly examines De Kooning's life,
marked by self - doubts, successes, new beginnings, excess es, and
scandalous paintings, as well as the evolution of his artistic
work. In addition, author Corinna Thierolf opens up exciting
perspectives on De Kooning's work by revealing entirely new,
surprising relationships with the works of fellow artists such as
Franz Marc, Piet Mondrian, or Wassily Kandinsky.
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Georg Baselitz (Hardcover)
Carla Schulz-Hoffman; Preface by Bernhard Maaz, Corinna Thierolf
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The Bavarian State Painting Collections hold 31 masterpieces by
Georg Baselitz from all the artist's creative phases. The volume
analyses for the first time these important paintings and
sculptures within the context of the history of the collection,
which has been shaped not only by the artist's out-standing
supporters and collectors, including Duke Franz von Bayern, but
also by the passionate commitment of the directors and curators of
the museums. In 1972, when Sea Swallow became the first work by
Georg Baselitz to join the Bavarian State Painting Collections,
this represented the first step towards the establishment of an
epoch-making collection. Today, 46 years later, the museum is
dedicating this extensive publication to this main focus within its
holdings which has been built up over the past decades. It
spotlights one of the highlights of its collection of art after
1945, whose outstanding profile in the international museum
landscape is also charac -terized by unique holdings of works by
Joseph Beuys, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke,
Arnulf Rainer and Fred Sandback.
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