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Katharina Grosse : Wunderbild

Title

Katharina Grosse : Wunderbild / Adam Budak (ed.).

Author

Grosse, Katharina, 1961-

Publication

Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König ; Prague : National Gallery in Prague, [2018]
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Description

166 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

German artist Katharina Grosse (born 1961) paints monumental tableaux of desire that can be perceived as a sublime act of lovers' embrace towards the space, an architecture, and the viewer. For the National Gallery in Prague, Grosse elaborates a large-scale, site-specific painterly installation which radically redefines painting as a performative and architectural medium and responds to the Gallery's industrial space of the late 20s functionalist style. Her "Wunderbild" is an architectural painting, a spatial image which the viewer inhabits with his/her body and mind. The color gains a volume; the flat surface turns sculptural; the pictorial field crosses the limits of the visual. Epic in scale, the immersive installation, composed of overlapping pieces of fabric covered by thick layers of sprayed paint, reminds us of both a medieval mural and a womb-like cave of a pre-ancient drawing, a post-theatrical chamber of a hyper-technisized, intoxicating environment. The painting takes over the site; Grosse's gesture is an art of becoming a space. "I'm a painter--I'm interested in the space generated by the painted image and how it can appear in any kind of existing field, be it architecture or the mundane situations of everyday life. For me, painting isn't restricted to a canvas or a wall." According to Grosse, the painting is an unconstrained act of freedom. "Wunderbild" is an outburst of pictorial generosity. Registering a gestural moment of the image's appearance, it perceives painting as a processual practice of an extreme resilience and flux, a life itself, a mental and physical preoccupation. The book is illustrated by numerous making-of photos that shed light on the artist's way of working, and provides an in-depth analysis of "Wunderbild."

Alternative Title

Wunderbild

Subjects

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Trade Fair Palace, National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, 16 February 2018-6 January 2019.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQG 19-193

ISBN

9783960984351
3960984359

OCLC

1054396972

Author

Grosse, Katharina, 1961- artist.

Title

Katharina Grosse : Wunderbild / Adam Budak (ed.).

Publisher

Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König ; Prague : National Gallery in Prague, [2018]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Budak, Adam, editor.

Veletržní Palác v Praze, host institution.

Národní galerie v Praze, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JQG 19-193

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