Martin Kippenberger
Martin Kippenberger was born 1953 BirthDortmund, Germany.
Died 1997 deathVienna, Austria.
Categories: Installation art Painting Sculpture Objects Venice Biennale
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Martin Kippenberger was a versatile artist, who worked as a gallery owner, event promotor (manager of the SO 36 punk club in Berlin), painter and object artist. Many of his works testify to an ironic, critical approach to the mechanisms of art production and the art market…
In Martin Kippenberger’s remarkable series of self-portraits from 1988, he pictures himself with a touching lack of vanity. An exaggerated beer belly, folds of fat, a thick neck, and dejected posture present a melancholic, awkward and somewhat grumpy figure. He wears immense white underpants pulled up high on his hips – rather like a well-known photograph of Picasso…
Metro-Net was a great art idea by Martin Kippenberger—simple, intelligent, accessible, thought-provoking and funny. Kippenberger imagined a global underground metro system and started to construct entrances to it in different cities around the world…
Thing Net.
Thing Net.
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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Kippenberger was “widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of his generation,” according to Roberta Smith of the New York Times. He was at the center of a generation of German enfants terribles including Albert Oehlen, Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, Dieter Göls, and Günther Förg.
“My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.” Untitled , Heavy Burschi with Warhol, c.1989-90