Neo Rauch: PROPAGANDAAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Thursday 29 August 2019
Description
German artist Neo Rauch, championed as â?othe painter of the zeitgeistâ?? by The New York Timesâ?Ts Roberta Smith, presents new paintings in PROPAGANDA. Rauch is widely celebrated for his captivating compositions that bring together figurative painting and surrealism into an entirely new kind of visual encounter. They often hint at broader narratives and historiesâ?"seemingly reconnecting with artistic traditions of realismâ?"but they remain dreamlike and impossible to reduce to a single story. Though his art is highly refined and executed with great technical skill, Rauch himself stresses the intuitive, deeply personal nature of how he works. As the artist notes, â?oMy process is far less a reflection than it is drawing from the sediments of my past, which occurs in an almost trance-like state. â??Eight large-scale canvases and seven smaller, more intimately scaled works continue the artistâ?Ts exploration of figuration and the ambiguous nature of meaning in visual art. In some of the larger works, the saturation of the canvas with characters, objects, and, forms, all rendered at different scales and in conflicting arrangements, creates a collage-like qualityâ?"a figurative scrapbook of Rauchâ?Ts personal iconography. The publication features a short story by German novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann, which was inspired by the paintings in this book. The fantastical text moves between present-day New York and an unknown time of enchanted forests, knights, and witches, exploring the many layers found in Rauchâ?Ts canvases. Published on the occasion of the artistâ?Ts solo exhibition at David Zwirner, Hong Kong in 2019, Neo Rauch: PROPAGANDA is available in both English only and bilingual English/traditional Chinese editions.
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