Format:
215 Seiten
,
30 cm x 24 cm
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9783947127306
,
3947127308
Uniform Title:
Karel Appel (Ausstellungskatalog, 2023)
Content:
As a founding member of the Cobra group, Karel Appel belonged to one of Europe’s seminal post-war avant-gardes; as a painter of the Nouvelle École de Paris he celebrated his first successes in the 1950s. Shuttling between New York and Paris, throughout his life he sought the artistic confrontation with the unknown: an unfamiliar style, a particular motif, the interplay between sculpture and painting. The book documents four exhibitions of his work at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin and London between 2019 and 2023. Two shows explored the influence of Appel’s first visit to New York: on the one hand, he found his way into action painting—the apex of which is represented by his wall-size picture for Documenta 1964 that he painted on-site overnight—on the other, he took up the academic subject of nude painting in a wholly unacademic way. The book then centers on a retrospective selection of the artist’s three-dimensional work, ranging from bronze and terracotta pieces to object paintings and absurdly poetic assemblages of carnivalesque found objects. Finally, Appel returned to the nude theme in oversized drawings and expressionist paintings from the 1980s and ’90s. Thus the book follows different lines with many ramifications through an oeuvre created over the course of sixty years, which leaves a lot to be discovered
Note:
Impressum: "This book ist published on the occasion of the exhibitions 'Karel Appel: Late Nudes', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin ... 15 November 2019-11 January 2020; 'Karel Appel: Object Paintings', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin ...27 February-3 April 2021; 'Karel Appel: Paris/New York', Galerie Max Hetzler, London, 41 Dover Street, 20 January-26 February 2022; 'Karel Appel: Encounter in Spring and what follows', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin ... 13 January-25 February 2023"
,
Text englisch und deutsch
Language:
English
Keywords:
Appel, Karel 1921-2006
;
Malerei
;
Plastik
;
Bildband
;
Ausstellungskatalog
;
Ausstellungskatalog
;
Ausstellungskatalog
;
Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Kaiser, Franz W. 1957-
Author information:
Appel, Karel 1921-2006
