Markus Lüpertz
Subtitle: highways and byways : a retrospective : paintings and sculptures from 1963 until 2009
By: [editor: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; editing: Susanne Kleine]
Contributors: Kleine, Susanne; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Publisher: Snoeck
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cologne
Language: ger
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9783940953223
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Exhibitions; German Painting; German Sculpture
Work titles: Works
Description: Markus Lüpertz has never believed in the purely representational purpose of art, but, in his own words, has always been "searching for the potential picture" and thus doesn't feel bound by any one style. The exhibition and the comprehensive accompanying catalogue set out to investigate the "large gesture", as well as to explore Lüpertz's conscious play with the role of the artist, duly presenting his multifaceted oeuvre and his passion and intellectual rigour in a large selection of 150 paintings and sculptures, including a number of early works, which still have the capacity to surprise one today. They range from the early examples of the "dithyrambic", "anti-abstract" painting from the 1960s with its proximity to pop art, to the intensive engagement with the mythological and classical canon of themes during the past few decades, all of which is accompanied by an extensive section containing photographic documents. Exhibition: Kunst- und Ausstellungshallungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 9 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
Notes: "This publication is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Markus Lüpertz Highways and Byways, A retrospective. Paintings and Sculptures from 1963 until 2009' October 9, 2009-January 17, 2010, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 375).

English version of the German language exhibition catalog.