Gustav Kluge
Subtitle: die Elemente, die Künste
By: [Ausstellung und Katalog, Ernst-Gerhard Güse und Ernest W. Uthemann in Zusammenarbeit mit Gustav Kluge].
Contributors: Güse, Ernst-Gerhard.; Uthemann, Ernest W.
Publisher: Edition Cantz
Published: 1992
Place of publication: [Stuttgart]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Kluge, Gustav, 1947-  -- Exhibitions.
Description: "For 20 years the work of Gustav Kluge remained consistent from artistic trends and market movements unaffected. Kluge is a consistently figurative painter, a classic outsider, but his work always found in the discourse of contemporary art and always had a public presence. He cares little about the popular scenic locations of his time, as he also the grand gesture of a self-asserting painting disregarded. for him, painting is a comprehensive process, an observing process of society and the existence of the individual against. In the best case, the painting for him an interweaving of self and the world of knowledge, but above all, more than any other artist the past 20 years, Kluge is in the extremely substantive discussion about the phenomena of the transition between life and death within painting. Pain, violence and the exercise of power and torture and humiliation of human existence have always been treated by him in almost manic way. His paintings are characterized by directness and sometimes unbearable presence of a visual language that is deliberately in the representation of the human image based on primitive forms of rawness and an abstraction in which a psychological background always resonates." -- Jury review by Wulf Herzogenrath.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 76).