Birgit Megerle
Subtitle: the painted veil
By: Judith Welter, editor
Publisher: Kunsthaus Glarus; Koenig Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Glarus; London ; Köln
Language: mul; ger; eng
Number of pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9783960985174
Subjects: Painting; Exhibitions
Other titles: Painted veil
Description: Birgit Megerle focuses on the figure in her paintings. The artist paints her surroundings, well-known personalities, stars, and--with increasing frequency in more recent paintings--anonymous individuals. Precise, detailed, and delicately executed, the portraits are both artificial and distanced. In the paintings, painterly "reduction" and abstraction determine the implicit views of the private and the public, of medially constructed personalities, and of casual, random poses. --Publisher's website.
Notes: Parallel texts in English and German.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, May 28 - July 30, 2017.