Carl Ostendarp
Subtitle: greatest hits
By: Herausgeber, Kunstverein Heilbronn
Contributors: Kunstverein Heilbronn
Publisher: Kunstverein Heilbronn; Snoeck
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Heilbronn; Köln
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9783864422171
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Carl Ostendarp.; Carl Ostendarp. English.
Description: In 2014, Ken Johnson writes in the New York Times about Carl Ostendarp's works that they had the same effect as someone belching in church during worship. This admiring observation is aimed at the artist's oxymoronic skill of combining the incompatible: onomatopoeia from comics (in the NYT it is called: goofy signature letters) with cool color-field or hard-edge painting (according to NYT: high-minded seriousness of the modernist monochrome). Background for Carl Ostendarp's quite entertaining paintings in his interest in graphics, which he shares with many artists of his generation. Born in 1961 in the liberal university town of Amherst, Massachusetts, he now lives and works as an art professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Exhibition: Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany (23.09.-12.11.2017).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kunstverein Heilbronn, September 23 - November 12, 2017.