Research Catalog

Title

Wenzel Ziersch / [texts, Kosme de Barañano ... [et al.]].

Author

Ziersch, Wenzel, 1965-

Publication

Valencia : Institut Valenciá d'Art Modern, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Barañano Letamendía, Kosme María de, 1952-
• Cañamás, Maite
• Institut Valencià d'Art Modern
• IVAM Centre Julio González

Description

179 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 30 cm.

Summary

This is the first exhibition dedicated to this artist, born in Munich in 1965, not only in Spain but in a museum anywhere in the world. Wenzel Ziersch does not draw: he writes the surfaces of his paintings. In his tiny writing, the shades and hues little by little form shapes in his paintings. Drawing with writing, he meticulously and carefully repeats fragments of texts over and over again, formerly items taken from newspapers and now passages from the Bible, on paper, canvas, mirrors or panes of glass to form almost monochrome surfaces where blacks, greys and whites gently blend. The titles of some of his series are suggestive, for example, The Word was Painting or Inscriptions. In them he painstakingly and with almost monkish perseverance transcribes passages of the book of Corinthians. Using a fine pencil or a steel burin, which he "bandages" to protect his hands, he writes, or scrapes on glass, the same sentence over and over again until the whole surface of the painting is covered by a text impossible to read. The exhibition held at the IVAM will include a selection of twenty works on different media (glass, paper, wood) made in pencil, felt pen, ink.

Subject

Ziersch, Wenzel, 1965- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, May 6 - July 4, 2004.

Language (note)

• In Catalan, English, and Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Trazos y mensajes = Marks and messages / Kosme de Barañano -- El espejo y el humo = Mirror and smoke / Miguel Ángel Velasco -- Wenzel Ziersch : concepto y sentido de una obra = the concept and meaning of an oeuvre / Maita Cañamás.

ISBN

8448237765

OCLC

• 56607535
• SCSB-10150158

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library