Neo Rauch: Arbeiten auf Papier / Works on Paper 2003-2004

RAUCH, Neo, KUNDE, Harald

ISBN 10: 3775715010 / ISBN 13: 9783775715010

Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany, 2004

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Works on paper by Neo Rauch. Essay (in German and English) by Harald Kunde. Includes a biography. Unpaginated (60 pp.), with 14 four-color plates. 12-3/8 x 9-3/4 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Albertina, Vienna. Fine. From the publisher: "Art critic Rudij Bergmann has written 'for Neo Rauch, painting is reflection on what is no longer present. His is a decidedly romantic attitude of refusal that gives deeper meaning to figures frozen strangely in motion--as an allegory of universal alienation from the world and rejection of technology and as a melancholy homage to the unfulfilled promise of freedom and human happiness. There is a constant stream of memory in these works, not only of world history but also of childhood, Pop art and comics.' Rauch possesses an artistic style and sensibility that place his paintings among the most original of our time. Rauch's palettes and compositions are reminiscent of postwar illustrations; so are his figures. They belong in the past, constantly at work in a world filled with industrial symbolism. These symbols, themselves easily identified, are difficult to interpret in the context of the works, in part due to Rauch's painterly style, ominous colors and skewed perspectives. The dichotomies at play in his work provide an overall sense of false comfort tinged with disturbance, of a situation brewing, threatening to reveal itself. This book presents his recent large works on paper completed in 2003 and 2004.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Neo Rauch: Arbeiten auf Papier / Works on Paper 2003-2004
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775715010
• ISBN 13: 9783775715010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drawing
  • Painting

About this title

Synopsis

Art critic Rudij Bergmann has stated, "For Neo Rauch, painting is reflection on what is no longer present. His is a decidedly romantic attitude of refusal that gives deeper meaning to figures frozen strangely in motion--as an allegory of universal alienation from the world and rejection of technology and as a melancholy homage to the unfulfilled promise of freedom and human happiness. There is a constant stream of memory in these works, not only of world history but also of childhood, Pop Art, and comics." Rauch possesses an artistic style and sensibility that place his paintings among the most original of our time. Rauch's palettes and compositions are reminiscent of postwar illustrations; so are his figures. They belong in the past, constantly at work in a world filled with industrial symbolism. These symbols, themselves easily identified, are difficult to interpret in the context of the works, in part due to Rauch's painterly style, ominous colors and skewed perspectives. The dichotomies at play in his work provide an overall sense of false comfort tinged with disturbance, of a situation brewing, threatening to reveal itself. This book presents his recent large works on paper completed in 2003 and 2004.

About the Author

Born in 1960 in Leipzig, Neo Rauch is a lifelong resident of Germany. He has shown his work at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and in the past year alone at venues in London, Prague, Montreal, Santa Fe and Osaka. His work has been covered by the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and Artforum, and is in the collections of both The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York.