Research Catalog

Title

Lob der Malkunst : Margret Eicher / Autor*innen, Michael Buhrs, Margret Eicher, Marc Wellmann.

Author

Eicher, Margret, 1955-

Publication

• Berlin : DCV, Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buhrs, Michael
• Wellmann, Marc
• Museum Villa Stuck, host institution.
• Haus am Lützowplatz (Berlin, Germany), host institution.

Description

approximately 244 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), upperside partly uncut; 29 cm

Summary

Margret Eicher's (b. Viersen, Germany, 1955; lives and works in Berlin) large-format tapestries combine the baroque form of the woven picture with familiar motifs excerpted from contemporary media images. She digitizes her sources and then assembles them in painstaking editing work on the computer. The resulting "media tapestries" occupy the interface between the traditional work of art as a physical object and the electronic noise of the digital realm: two worlds that at first glance would seem to be incompatible yet find themselves in harmonious union in Eicher's art. In Göttliche Liebe (Divine Love), for example, Caravaggio's Crowning with Thorns meets a kissing gay couple from a pro-tolerance campaign in Berlin, while Botticelli's Birth of Venus is sampled together with a subway station in Frankfurt. In conceptual art production, the creative idea is central and its realization becomes secondary; in a final twist, Lob der Malkunst (Praise of Painting) elects this practice as its artistic lodestar. Eicher installs the painter Martin Kippenberger in the interior of Berlin's Paris Bar, where he poses as a dandy and presides over a clash between the different tendencies in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Exhibition: Villa Stuck, München, Germany (19.05. - 22.11.2020).

Alternative Title

Margret Eicher

Subject

• Eicher, Margret, 1955- > Exhibitions
• Eicher, Margret, 1955-

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum Villa Stuck, München and Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, February 5, 2021-March 14, 2021.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Texts in German and English.

Call Number

JQF 21-1137

ISBN

• 9783969120170
• 3969120179

LCCN

9783969120170

OCLC

1240151294

Author

Eicher, Margret, 1955- artist.

Title

Lob der Malkunst : Margret Eicher / Autor*innen, Michael Buhrs, Margret Eicher, Marc Wellmann.

Publisher

Berlin : DCV, Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Texts in German and English.

Added Author

Buhrs, Michael, writer of supplementary textual content.

Wellmann, Marc, writer of supplementary textual content.

Museum Villa Stuck, host institution.

Haus am Lützowplatz (Berlin, Germany), host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

9783969120170

Research Call Number

JQF 21-1137