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Katharina Grosse

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German artist Katharina Grosse is one of the internationally most important representatives of contemporary painting. For more than a decade now, she has been working on a picture type that nullifies all borders and hierarchies between painting and space. In doing so, she replaces the brush with airbrush and compressor, the canvas with floors, walls, ceilings, as well as found, deliberately arranged or specially fabricated objects. The viewer finds himself in the middle of the picture, within a painting spreading into all directions that appears to fall off the walls or where the ground below one's feet seems to falter. At the same time, Katharina Grosse continued the further developing of her canvas paintings in her studio. They will be published here for the first time. Whereas these pictures' method of production and
their approach are directly tied to Katharina Grosse's extensive installation works, in their treatment of volume, they appear to be almost diametrically opposed to them. Ulrich Wilmes, chief curator at Haus der Kunst, Munich, wrote the essay.
Katharina Grosse was born in 1961 in Freiburg. She lives and works in Berlin.
She studied at the M

Language: English

Pages: 110

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Gestalten

Release: June 01, 2011

ISBN: 3942405199

ISBN 13: 9783942405195

Eat, Child, Eat!

Katharina Grosse

0/5 ( ratings)

German artist Katharina Grosse is one of the internationally most important representatives of contemporary painting. For more than a decade now, she has been working on a picture type that nullifies all borders and hierarchies between painting and space. In doing so, she replaces the brush with airbrush and compressor, the canvas with floors, walls, ceilings, as well as found, deliberately arranged or specially fabricated objects. The viewer finds himself in the middle of the picture, within a painting spreading into all directions that appears to fall off the walls or where the ground below one's feet seems to falter. At the same time, Katharina Grosse continued the further developing of her canvas paintings in her studio. They will be published here for the first time. Whereas these pictures' method of production and
their approach are directly tied to Katharina Grosse's extensive installation works, in their treatment of volume, they appear to be almost diametrically opposed to them. Ulrich Wilmes, chief curator at Haus der Kunst, Munich, wrote the essay.
Katharina Grosse was born in 1961 in Freiburg. She lives and works in Berlin.
She studied at the M

Language: English

Pages: 110

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Gestalten

Release: June 01, 2011

ISBN: 3942405199

ISBN 13: 9783942405195

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