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Anton Henning : masterdote, antisinger.
- Title
- Anton Henning : masterdote, antisinger.
- Author
- Henning, Anton, 1964-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Haunch of Venison, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | N6888.H43 A4 2010 | Off-site |
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- Haunch of Venison (Gallery)
- Description
- 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.); 23 cm.
- Summary
- MASTERdote / antiSINGER is a major exhibition by German artist Anton Henning at Haunch of Venison, London (May - July 2010). Featuring more than 80 works, including painting and sculpture, furniture and drawing, video, and a site specific stained glass window, the exhibition considers Henning's oeuvre as a series of interrelated riddles, precariously positioned between irony and grandeur. The title of the show is a compelling collage of Richard Wagner's opera about art and creativity, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and 'antidote', the medical term for an agent that counteracts a poison. The work itself, and the enigmatic way it is presented, reveals both the absurdist and traditional vein of the artist's humorous and self-aware art, from the seemingly sober to the dazzling and whimsical. Henning is anti-unconventional in his examination and use of traditional (conventional) art genres from portrait, landscape, nude and still life.
- Alternative Title
- Masterdote, antisinger
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781905620500 (pbk.)
- 1905620500 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010671636
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library