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Sigmar Polke: Die Vervielfältigung Des Humors: Kat. Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Und Les Abatoirs, Toulouse
Contributor(s): Schmidt, Eva (Editor), Michelon, Olivier (Editor), Butin, Hubertus (Text by (Art, Photo Books))
ISBN: 3864420423     ISBN-13: 9783864420429
Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $53.96  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: March 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General
- Art | Individual Artists - Monographs
- Art | History - Contemporary (1945- )
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 9.3" W x 12.5" (2.85 lbs) 176 pages
 
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Sigmar Polke's work contains around 200 editions dating from 1963 to 2009, and the collection Ciesielski has collected them worldwide in their entirety. The book accompanying the exhibition showcasing this collection and its juxtaposition with works in the Lambrecht-Schadeberg collection in the Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, is intended to facilitate an intense discussion of work of individual, outstanding editions by the late winner of the City of Siegens Ruben's Prize (2007) lead by a younger generation of critics, but also by specialists with intimate knowledge as well as close associates. The authors embark upon an exciting adventure to formulate new approaches to the work of the ambivalent and ironic Grand Master.

With his sheets, maps, books, photographs and objects, Sigmar Polke opened up completely new pathways for art in the twentieth century by means of surprising themes and experimental techniques. The editions drew upon his paintings, on the one hand in order to feed back into them, but on the other, to develop completely individual media-based aspects--almost as if to say: a life of its own. The special feature of Sigmar Polke's editions is of course the fact that a camouflage-like blurring principle is granted full thematic exploration within them. He produced photos here reminiscent of reportage and social criticism and juxtaposed them as equals with his colourful, serial prints containing everyday motifs, his so-called German-pop style-mix of simple fabrics. His critical attitude towards both the media and culture shines through in his multiples, especially when he worked with historical engravings or optical equipment, or even when simulating magical procedures.

Exhibitions:
Museum f r Gegenwartskunst Siegen, 16/3-23/6/2013
les Abatoirs, Toulouse, 31/1-4/5/2013


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