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Body check : Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig

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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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
Subjects
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
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