Sigmar Polke / mostra a cura di Elena Geuna e Guy Tosatto ; assistiti da Federica Ellena, Ilaria Porotto ; con la collaborazione di The Estate of Sigmar Polke, direttore artistico Michael Trier.
Edition:
Prima edizione. First edition. Première édition.
"Partner instituzionale, Pinault Collection"--Title page verso Catalog of an exhibition held at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy from April 17 to November 6, 2016. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Sigmar Polke: le film en tant que double exposition / Thomas Elsaesser -- Opere in mostra = Exhibited works =Oeuvres exposées. Tre menzogne e alcune domande senza risposta / Guy Tosatto -- Il forno cosmico e il violetto. La presenza ricorrente di Sigmar Polke a Venezia / Bice Curiger -- Sigmar Polke: dal rivale al modello. Una prospettiva tedesca / Erik Verhagen -- Sigmar Polke: il cinema come doppia esposizione / Thomas Elsaesser -- Polke. Passages to Italy / Elena Geuna -- Three lies and a few unanswered questions / Guy Tosatto -- The cosmic crucible and purple. Sigmar Polke in Venice / Bice Curiger -- Sigmar Polke: from rival to model. A German perspective / Erik Verhagen -- Sigmar Polke: film as double exposure / Thomas Elsaesser -- Polke. Passages en Italie / Elena Geuna -- Trois mensonges et quelques questions sans réponses / Guy Tosatto -- Le fourneau cosmique et la pourpre. La présence récurrente de Sigmar Polke à Venise / Bice Curiger -- Sigmar Polke: du rival au modèle. Une perspective allemande / Erik Verhagen -- Sigmar Polke: le film en tant que double exposition / Thomas Elsaesser -- Opere in mostra = Exhibited works =Oeuvres exposées.
Summary:
One of the main exponents of Capitalist Realism -- a current that arose in the 1970s in opposition to both the Socialist Realism widespread in the countries of Eastern Europe and Western pop art -- Sigmar Polke was a tireless experimenter of techniques, art materials, and chemical-alchemical processes. He created figurative paintings that drew on a vast iconographic repertoire often inspired by everyday life and abstract works with a powerful symbolic value sometimes created by chance through reactions between paint and other products. The book reproduces over eighty-five of his works (including photographs and sculptures, along with numerous paintings), giving a full account of Polke's reflections and studies made over his fifty-year career.
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