Christoph Schreier Livres

Although it has been linked with distinct twentieth-century art practices--including abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptual art--Blinky Palermo’s (1943–1977) diverse body of work defies easy classification. Throughout his brief and influential career, Palermo executed paintings, objects, installations and works on paper that addressed the contextual and semantic issues at stake in the construction, exhibition and reception of works of art. This publication focuses in depth on the artist’s works on paper from 1976–1977, executed just prior to his untimely death in February 1977. Palermo’s late work is characterized by its explorations of the tensions and contrasts between material and color, surface and depth, and signification and abstraction. These works on paper convey his understanding of color as a system of signs. This fully illustrated catalogue is the first to comprehensively address this facet of Palermo’s practice and includes new scholarship by Christine Mehring and Christoph Schreier.

Painter Philip Guston's return to figuration in the late 1960s was plotted and rehearsed in his drawing practice, in which he veered between what he referred to as "pure drawing" (abstract) and figurative drawing (a shoe, a chair, a nail, an open book, a hooded head). As he groped his way into this strange and clunky vocabulary, Guston discovered an incredible world awaiting him, and realized, as he put it, that "I wanted to tell stories!"Guston's drawing was also a vehicle for collaboration--with poets such as Clark Coolidge and Bill Berkson--and for satire--the Poor Richard series. His draftsmanship betrays such early influences as the cartoons of Frink and George Herriman, perhaps instances of the "impure" art that flooded back into his practice after he abandoned abstraction. With a selection of about 100 drawings, mostly from the artist's estate, Philip Works on Paper tracks the evolution of this major American artist's drawing from the 1940s to 1980.

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Auf Eisschränke gespachtelte Penatencreme, auf dem Boden verstrichene Schokoladencreme oder aufgeschüttete Zuckerdünen – die Skulpturen von Thomas Rentmeister benutzen ungewöhnliche Materialien in unerwarteten Zusammenhängen. Was auf den ersten Blick formalistisch und distanziert erscheint, stellt in Wahrheit unsere unmittelbaren Wahrnehmungs- und Konsumgewohnheiten in Frage. Wahrnehmung und Intellekt, Ästhetik und Sinnbildung werden spitz gegeneinander ausgespielt. Rentmeisters Plastiken und Installationen arbeiten dabei mit Elementen von Minimal- und Pop-Art der 1960er Jahre. Bereits in den 1980er Jahren experimentierte der in Berlin lebende Künstler mit bildhauerischen Formen aus alltäglichen, vorgefundenen Objekten. In den 1990er Jahren wurde er mit seinen eleganten Polyester-Arbeiten bekannt: präzise modellierte Hochglanz-Skulpturen mit einer Anmutung des organisch Weichen. - Erste umfassende Monografie - Ausstellung Thomas Rentmeister im Kunstmuseum Bonn, 20. Oktober 2011 bis 10. Januar 2012 (anschließend in Perth, Australien) Thomas Rentmeister (*1964 in Reken, Westfalen) studierte bei Günther Uecker und Alfonso Hüppi an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Er erhielt 1996 das Arbeitsstipendium der Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. Seit 2007 Professor an der HBK Braunschweig. Thomas Rentmeister lebt in Berlin. Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch