Better Than de Kooning

Andreas Bauer,Marcus Weber

Better Than de Kooning
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Country
Germany
Published
24 December 2015
Pages
144
ISBN
9783864421372

Better Than de Kooning

Andreas Bauer,Marcus Weber

STONED AGIN Better than de Kooning , this title quoted for a group exhibition sounds like a terrible genre joke, because nobody can paint better than de Kooning , so it is an ideal title for a group show exhibition. Peter Saul paints during the mid-1970s a series of pictures of women that parodies the Woman -pictures (1950-53) of Willem de Kooning. He meticulously imitates the brush strokes and the impasto in a stylistic mix of Pointillism and Graffiti Art, turns up the colour regulator, and allows the abstract-expressionist painting and the women themselves to blend in a Daliesque manner, like soft ice cream (see the text Un Autre Monde by Marcus Weber and Ice Creams, Atom Bomb, I-Screens, Data Bomb by Esther Leslie in this book). In 2008, Saul paints another version of this cartoon-like, neon avatar and calls his painting Better than de Kooning …a relief of US reality.

Artists:

Tim Berresheim, Jana Euler, Maria Lassnig, Lee Lozano, Michel Majerus, Dieter Krieg, Katrin Plavcak, Jon Rafman, Gunter Reski, Peter Saul, Matthias Schaufler, Jim Shaw, Amy Sillman, Sue Williams

Exhibition:

Villa Merkel Galerien der Stadt Esslingen: 12/9-15/11/2015

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