Sigmar Polke

Author/Creator:

Polke, Sigmar, artist

Publication/Creation:

Venezia : Marsilio editori, 2016

Format:

Book

Edition:

Prima edizione.
First edition.
Première édition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Sigmar Polke / mostra a cura di Elena Geuna e Guy Tosatto ; assistiti da Federica Ellena, Ilaria Porotto ; con la collaborazione di The Estate of Sigmar Polke, direttore artistico Michael Trier

Related/Included Titles:

Polke. Passaggi in Italia /
Tre menzogne e alcune domande senza risposta /
Il forno cosmico e il violetto. La presenza ricorrente di Sigmar Polke a Venezia /
Sigmar Polke: dal rivale al modello. Una prospettiva tedesca /
Sigmar Polke: il cinema come doppia esposizione /
Polke. Passages to Italy /
Three lies and a few unanswered questions /
The cosmic crucible and purple. Sigmar Polke in Venice /
Sigmar Polke: from rival to model. A German perspective /
Sigmar Polke: film as double exposure /
Polke. Passages en Italie /
Trois mensonges et quelques questions sans réponses /
Le fourneau cosmique et la pourpre. La présence récurrente de Sigmar Polke à Venise /
Sigmar Polke: du rival au modèle. Une perspective allemande /
Sigmar Polke: le film en tant que double exposition /
Works. Selections.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Polke, Sigmar, artist
Polke, Sigmar. Works
Geuna, Elena, curator and writer of added commentary
Tosatto, Guy, curator and writer of added commentary
Curiger, Bice, 1948-, writer of added commentary
Verhagen, Erik, writer of added commentary
Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-, writer of added commentary
Palazzo Grassi, host institution
Marsilio editori, publisher

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Subjects:

Polke, Sigmar--Exhibitions

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Polke. Passaggi in Italia / Elena Geuna -- Tre menzogne e alcune domande senza risposta / Guy Tosatto -- Il forno cosmico e il violetto. La presenza ricorrente di Sigmar Polke a Venezia / Bice Curiger -- Sigmar Polke: dal rivale al modello. Una prospettiva tedesca / Erik Verhagen -- Sigmar Polke: il cinema come doppia esposizione / Thomas Elsaesser -- Polke. Passages to Italy / Elena Geuna -- Three lies and a few unanswered questions / Guy Tosatto -- The cosmic crucible and purple. Sigmar Polke in Venice / Bice Curiger -- Sigmar Polke: from rival to model. A German perspective / Erik Verhagen -- Sigmar Polke: film as double exposure / Thomas Elsaesser -- Polke. Passages en Italie / Elena Geuna -- Trois mensonges et quelques questions sans réponses / Guy Tosatto -- Le fourneau cosmique et la pourpre. La présence récurrente de Sigmar Polke à Venise / Bice Curiger -- Sigmar Polke: du rival au modèle. Une perspective allemande / Erik Verhagen -- Sigmar Polke: le film en tant que double exposition / Thomas Elsaesser -- Opere in mostra = Exhibited works =Oeuvres exposées.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

One of the main exponents of Capitalist Realism -- a current that arose in the 1970s in opposition to both the Socialist Realism widespread in the countries of Eastern Europe and Western pop art -- Sigmar Polke was a tireless experimenter of techniques, art materials, and chemical-alchemical processes. He created figurative paintings that drew on a vast iconographic repertoire often inspired by everyday life and abstract works with a powerful symbolic value sometimes created by chance through reactions between paint and other products. The book reproduces over eighty-five of his works (including photographs and sculptures, along with numerous paintings), giving a full account of Polke's reflections and studies made over his fifty-year career.

Language:

Italian
English
French

Language Note:

Texts presented in Italian, English and French.

Physical Type/Description:

264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

General Note:

"Partner instituzionale, Pinault Collection"--Title page verso
Catalog of an exhibition held at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy from April 17 to November 6, 2016.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936636817302486

ISBN:

9788831723794
8831723790

OCLC Number:

959365177

Barcode:

010003021226