Marcus Weber
Subtitle: Krazy Dog Moon Kat : Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen
By: Herausgeber, Andreas Baur für Galerie der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar ; Texte, Andreas Baur, Thomas Groetz, Esther Leslie
Contributors: Galerie der Stadt Esslingen
Publisher: Snoeck
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Köln
Language: ger
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9783864422515
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Krazy Dog Moon Kat; Marcus Weber.; Marcus Weber. English.
Description: This book presents for the first time a wide selection of paintings by the artist, who was born in Stuttgart in 1965 and now lives in Berlin. They are narrative tongue-in-cheek images, allusive group portraits and urban landscapes with grotesque re-wordings of social orders, and caricatured and exaggerated individual characters. There are flashes of painterly sophistication, so that some works may be read as a capriccio, desolate and romantic at the same time. Great painters seem to always resonate? Marcus Weber displays an unmistakable enthusiasm for artists such as James Ensor and Philip Guston. All in all, this creates a grotesque mixture mocking each and every hierarchy, based as much on productive bridging into the realm of comics by Georg Herriman as on art history. Weber is a genre painter in the best tradition who paints images of society. As a subtle and multi-layered reaction to current political and social conditions, these works outrival so-called new history painting, which is usually exhausted by painted copies of press photos. Accordingly, the New York Times (May 2, 2018), on the occasion of his first solo exhibition in the United States, attested to the artist a surprisingly up-to-date approach in his emulating the immutability of real life. Exhibition: Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Germany (24.6. - 19.8.2018).
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition "Marcus Weber. Krazy Dog Moon Kat" held at the Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, June 24 - August 19, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.