Research Catalog

Title

Body check : Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig / kuratiert von / a cura di / curated by Veit Loers ; Texte: Kirsty Bell, Anna Fricke, Veit Loers, Peter Pakesch, Letizia Ragaglia.

Publication

• Cologne : Snoeck ; Bozen : Museion, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kippenberger, Martin, 1953-1997.
• Lassnig, Maria.
• Loers, Veit
• Bell, Kirsty
• Fricke, Anna, 1978-
• Pakesch, Peter
• Ragaglia, Letizia
• Museion (Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy), host institution.
• Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, host institution.

Description

176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

BODY CHECK presents two illustrious artists of the late 20th century who, in an era dominated by abstract painting and nascent political correctness, ventured to spotlight in their artistic work the human body, primarily their own. In their depictions, they stage both the female and male body in a grotesque manner, theatrically dramatizing the torso as well as the limbs, head, eyes, hands, and feet. Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) articulated this humorous grotesque discourse across the decades as an artistic means of expression fraught with self-irony and also as a feminist weapon. The self is presented as torso, as animal, with prostheses, or in a permanent state of organic metamorphosis. Martin Kippenberger's (1953-1997) paintings, sculptures, and drawings are pervaded by an enigmatic spirit of the grotesque, in which comical touches and dark humor evoke the painful, even tragic experience of a world where no one is prepared to help anyone else. The self, one's own body, is allegorically caught up in, or fragmented by, artifacts and linguistic constructs. Salvation is a utopia. Lassnig and Kippenberger never met, even though Kippenberger, a native of the Rhineland, made his home in his latter years in the southern part of the Austrian province of Burgenland, not far from Lassnig's home in the province of Carinthia. The kinship between the two artists' choice of motifs is thus all the more striking. Kippenberger most probably saw exhibitions of Lassnig's work (Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1985), and vice versa, after his early death and the growing awareness of his oeuvre, his Austrian colleague evidently studied it closely. In BODY CHECK, body images by the two exceptional artists spanning two decades are now brought together. The exhibition and the book shed new light on the work of both artists while also revealing the entrenched gender-specific roles in international art at the end of the twentieth century. --Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig

Subject

• Kippenberger, Martin, 1953-1997 > Exhibitions
• Lassnig, Maria > Exhibitions
• Kippenberger, Martin, 1953-1997
• Lassnig, Maria
• 1900-2099
• Human beings in art > Exhibitions
• Painting, German > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Drawing, German > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, Austrian > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Drawing, Austrian > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, Austrian > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Drawing, Austrian > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Human beings in art
• Drawing, Austrian
• Drawing, German
• Painting, Austrian
• Painting, German

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Museion Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, February 3-May 6, 2018, and at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich, Germany, May 21-September 15, 2019.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in German, Italian, and English.

Contents

Du oder ich = Tu o io = You or me / Veit Loers Zu Maria Lassnig und Martin Kippenberger oder wie sich zwei epochen, zwei werkkomplexe, aufeinander zu bewegen = Maria Lassnig e Martin Kippenberger ovvero l'incontro fra due epoche, fra due complessi di opere, entrambi straordinari = On Maria Lassnig and Martin Kippenberger or how two epoch-making careers and bodies of work converge / Peter Pakesch -- Martin Kippenberger / Maria Lassnig -- Martin Kippenberger und der elende körper = Martin Kippenberger e il misero corpo = Martin Kippenberger and the miserable body / Kirsty Bell -- Stillstand ist der tod = La stasi è morte = Stasis means death / Anna Fricke.

Call Number

JQF 19-1462

ISBN

• 9783864422348
• 3864422345

LCCN

• 2019435354
• 9783864422348

OCLC

1033159332

Title

Body check : Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig / kuratiert von / a cura di / curated by Veit Loers ; Texte: Kirsty Bell, Anna Fricke, Veit Loers, Peter Pakesch, Letizia Ragaglia.

Publisher

Cologne : Snoeck ; Bozen : Museion, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Text in German, Italian, and English.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Kippenberger, Martin, 1953-1997. Works. Selections. 2018.

Lassnig, Maria. Works. Selections. 2018.

Loers, Veit, author, editor.

Bell, Kirsty, author.

Fricke, Anna, 1978- author.

Pakesch, Peter, author.

Ragaglia, Letizia, author.

Museion (Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy), host institution.

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

9783864422348

Research Call Number

JQF 19-1462