Messensee: Beyond Contradictions

Austrian artist Jürgen Messensee is hard to categorize: his work in painting, drawing, and sculpture has so many facets that focusing on any one risks distorting the larger picture of his artistic achievement. This volume takes a wide-ranging view of his work, offering more than seventy color illustrations of his art in different media and forms, and supplementing them with his own words: his meditations on space and spaces and his philosophical interpretations of the marking of art. The result is both a depiction of the work of a master contemporary artist and a chance to peek into his mind as it works out the problems that lead to his creations.

The Angerlehner Museum in Thalheim, Germany, presents the private art collection of K. R. Heinz J. Angerlehner. Caroline Messensee is a curator and the daughter of Jürgen Messensee.