Günther Wizemann : Der schwarze Garten

Florian Vetsch

ISBN 10: 3858815500 / ISBN 13: 9783858815507

Edité par Scheidegger & Spiess Mai 2017, 2017

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Neuware - Günther Wizemann's series The Black Garden comprises forty-three paintings created between 2003 and 2013. Strongly influenced by the Russian modernists Kazimir Malevich and Aleksander Rodchenko, Wizemann has long mulled the question of what one could possibly paint in the aftermath of the modernists. Italian artist Mario Merz's statement-making installation, Che Fare , which sought to push the boundaries of art beyond traditional painting and sculpture, has been equally influential on Wizemann's practice. The Black Garden was created as a possible response to these questions. Published as a collection for the first time, the paintings that make up The Black Garden are the result of long artistic processes that involves layering oil and resin to produce an inner and an outer image on the canvas. They are accompanied here by essays that place the series-Wizemann's largest to date-within art historical context and reveal literary connotations along with formal and conceptual relations, ranging from the Renaissance to Wizemann's contemporaries. Wizemann is a fascinating figure in Switzerland's art scene, and this richly illustrated book offers an accessible introduction to his most recent work.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9783858815507

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Günther Wizemann : Der schwarze Garten
• Éditeur: Scheidegger & Spiess Mai 2017
• Date de parution: 2017
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3858815500
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783858815507
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 270 L x 200 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 270 millimètres de largeur par 200 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 760 grammes

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Synopsis

• The first publication of Günther Wizemann's Black Garden series
  
  Günther Wizemann, born 1953 in Graz (Austria), came to Switzerland as a child in 1960. He graduated from Zurich's School of Design and has since been working as a painter and concept artist. Studying the Russian modernists raised the question of what he could possibly paint in the aftermath of Kazimir Malevich and Aleksander Rodchenko. Equally, Mario Merz's installation Che fare? or, as Barnett Newman put it, What to paint? were statements that became programmatic for Wizemann's work.
  
  The 43 paintings of The Black Garden Wizemann has created between 2003 and 2013 are a possible response to his queries. Done in oil and resin on canvas, they are the result of lengthy artistic processes and a multitude of layers of paint, forming an inner and outer image space. Featured in its entirety for the first time in this new book, the paintings are published alongside essays placing Wizemann's largest series to date in art history. The accompanying texts reveal formal and conceptual relations, ranging from the Renaissance to his contemporaries. Starting from the title The Black Garden they also look at literary and philosophical connotations.
  
  Text in English and German.

À propos de l?auteur

Giorgia von Albertini is a scholar of art history and a freelance curator. Florian Vetsch is a grammar school teacher who also works as a writer, translator, and editor.