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Katharina Grosse
Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Angela Stief
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R918
Discovery Miles 9 180
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Katharina Grosse (b. 1961) has created walkable artworks in three
historical spaces within the Albertina in Vienna. The shimmering
colour fields extends across the walls, ceiling and floor, crossing
spatial and conceptual boundaries. Their power, intensity and sheer
size is overwhelming. The catalogue documents the three-dimensional
image world with detailed photos of the installations and pictures
from the studio. Expansion and permanent boundary-crossing, freedom
and autonomy form the basis of Grosse’s oeuvre. Her creative work
is experimental and unpredictable, like untamed thoughts. Numerous
photos from the artist’s personal archive provide an insight into
her working methods and sources of inspiration, as well as the
processes by which she develops her ideas.
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Gottfried Helnwein
Elsy Lahner, Klaus Albrecht Schröder; Text written by E. Lahner, K. Speidel
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R814
Discovery Miles 8 140
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“I am not aiming to provoke. For me, art is a possibility to
defend myself, to retaliate.” Gottfried Helnwein’s (b. 1948)
paintings of children are both touching and disturbing. The
hyperrealistic character of his images serves to intensify this
effect still further. The vulnerable and defenseless child serves
as the central motif in the artist’s examination of the themes of
pain, injury and violence. The catalogue provides an overview of
his creative work during the past twenty years. The child in
Helnwein’s works embodies and serves as proxy for psycho logical
and societal fears. The artist also uses his images to denounce
Nazism or to address the Holocaust as well as the taboo subject of
abuse. Helnwein is considered a provocateur to this day. He still
succeeds in shaking up people with his works, which are produced
from photographic references and which captivate us through their
technical perfection.
Before the rise of Pop Art proper, Alex Katz developed an iconic
style of figurative painting in the early 1960s— influenced by
film, television, and billboard advertising. Seemingly detached and
incredibly stylish, he created portraits of the New York scene as
well as idyllic landscapes. Printmaking plays an equally central
role in Katz’s work. He uses lithographs, etchings, silkscreens,
woodcuts and linocuts to reproduce, reflect and further reduce his
bold aesthetic, while retaining the radiant color characteristic
for his paintings. Since the first edition in 2011, Katz has almost
doubled his output of prints—this timely new edition includes his
complete prints, cutout editions, artists’ books, and also lists
his works of applied art like book illustrations and public art
projects. New essays and interviews with the artist give profound
insights into the work of one of the foremost American artists of
the present.
The Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente (b. 1952) is one of
the main representatives of the postmodern Transavantgarde and Arte
Cifra, the Italian version of Neo-Expressionism. Among his
extensive oeuvre, the publication focuses on Clemente’s major
works series. Clemente’s life spent in Europe, India, and New
York has lent a remarkably multifaceted quality to both his art and
his character. Indian culture and philosophy as well as the human
body are recurring themes rendered in his figurative,
Neo-Expressionist style. This volume guides through Clemente’s
pastels, watercolors, gouaches, and printed graphics, including
such major series as The Departure of the Argonaut, the From the
Terreiro pastels, the Amalfi watercolors, and The Tarots, as well
as his self-portraits, which have a quality all their own.
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Ben Willikens (Hardcover)
Albertina Wien; Text written by Walter Grasskamp, Constanze Malissa, Klaus Albrecht Schröder
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R913
Discovery Miles 9 130
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His mostly precisely composed, large-format paintings, with
deserted spaces as their main motif, made Ben Willikens (*1939)
famous in the second half of the 1970s. The exhibition and
accompanying catalogue present nearly 50 works created between 1971
and 2021 and thus span the artist’s entire oeuvre. Three groups
of works form the central pillars: the Anstaltsbilder of the 1970,
in whose motifs Willikens processes a dark chapter in his life, and
the series ORTE (PLACES) And ORTE 2 (PLACES 2), which deal with
Willikens’s examination of the architecture of the National
Socialist period. There are also various works from the series
Räume der Moderne (Spaces of Modernity). Text in English and
German.
On the occasion of his 85th birthday the famous international
German artist Georg Baselitz (*1938) has donated a collection of
works on paper to both the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the
Morgan Library in New York. The publication combines the 100 sheets
to create a representative retrospective, providing by virtue of
its concentration an important contribution to the understanding of
his entire oeuvre. The two extensive sets of drawings and
watercolours date from different creative phases from the early
1960s to the present day. Through this direct medium the works
provide an intimate insight into the artist’s creative process
across the past five decades. An interview with Georg Baselitz
conducted to mark this publication provides information about the
significance of the works on paper in the genesis of his works and
within his oeuvre.
Xenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of
our time. This splendid volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft
which characterizes all her works. Starting from the early
paintings of the 1990s up to her moving Exiles series, the
publication lures us into a female world filled with mysterious
interpersonal relationships. Hausner’s painting begins in
photography. The artist constructs three-dimensional settings in
her studio beforehand, and records details from them, similar to
film stills. Translated into painting, her images generate a
dramaturgical moment of tension, in which everything seems to push
towards the image that follows the one that is shown, in order to
reveal its enigma. Through the staging in her works – the record
of a painted lie – one experiences the contradictions of our
existence and an alternative to male-dominated pictorial language.
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