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American abstraction’s finest
living exponent
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Frank Stella
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Text by holger bröker, Markus brüderlin,
Gregor stemmrich, et al.
Frank Stella is abstraction’s greatest living
champion—the artist who, more than any other,
has merged abstract painting with sculpture
and architecture, pursuing the implications of
his “what you see is what you see” stance. a
forceful clarity of purpose and vision has characterized
his art and his career from the start:
he dominated the new York art scene of the
late 1950s with his Black Paintings composed
of stripes, which famously helped pave the way
for minimalism, and which were exhibited in
the museum of modern art, new York’s milestone
exhibition Sixteen Americans, alongside
Johns and rauschenberg. In 1970 Stella became
the youngest artist to receive a show at
the museum of modern art, by which time he
had already blazed his way through several stylistic
evolutions. to the surprise of many, the
passionate race-car driver did not follow the
seemingly inevitable route towards minimalism,
and instead followed a path that led him to
ever more opulent and baroque reliefs. With
this idiosyncratic turn “from minimalist to
maximalist,” Stella developed into one of the
boldest artists of the twentieth century.
on the occasion of Stella’s comprehensive retrospective
at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, this
massive survey celebrates the many lives of
Frank Stella. It includes classic examples of
each of his many periods, such as the Black
Paintings, Irregular Polygons, the Protractor
paintings, the Circuits series, the metal reliefs
and floor sculptures of the past two decades
and an “archiSkulptur” conceived by the artist
exclusively for the exhibition. With more
than 660 color reproductions, this volume is as
ambitious and spectacular as its subject.
Frank Stella was born in 1936, to first-generation
Sicilians, and grew up in a suburb of Boston.
In 1954 he entered princeton University, where
he took a night class in painting and drawing.
His first solo exhibition was at the Leo Castelli
gallery in 1960.
978-3-7757-3407-3
Hbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 392 pgs / 662 color.
U.S. $75.00 CDn $75.00
December/art
exHIBItIon SCHeDULe
Wolfsburg, germany: Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg, 09/01/12–01/20/13
A sensational experiment in book-making
from Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter: Patterns
Divided, Mirrored, Repeated
d.A.P./dIsTrIbuTed ArT PubLIshers
Text by Gerhard richter.
Patterns represents a brilliant new adventure in image-making and book-making by gerhard richter, who in
recent years has produced several fascinating explorations of the possibilities of the artist’s book. For this latest
project, richter took an image of his work “abstract painting” (Cr: 7244) and divided it vertically into strips:
first 2, then 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048, up to 4,096 strips. this process, involving twelve stages of
division, results in 8,190 strips, each of which is reproduced here at the height of the original image. With each
stage of division, the strips become progressively thinner (a strip of the 12th division is just 0.08 millimeters;
further divisions would only become visible by enlargement). each strip is then mirrored and repeated,
producing an incredibly detailed patterning. the number of repetitions increases with each stage of division
in order to make patterns of consistent size. the resulting 221 patterns are reproduced here on landscape
spreads, making for a truly extraordinary reading-viewing book experience.
Born in Dresden, east germany, in 1932, Gerhard Richter migrated to West germany in 1961, settling in
Düsseldorf, where he studied at the Düsseldorf academy, and where he held his first solo exhibition in 1963.
over the course of that decade, richter helped to liberate painting from the legacy of Socialist realism (in
eastern germany) and abstract expressionism (in Western germany and throughout europe). He has
exhibited internationally for the last five decades, with a major european touring retrospective in London,
Berlin and paris in 2012. He lives and works in Cologne.
978-1-935202-98-1
Hbk, 8.25 x 5.5 in. / 488 pgs / illustrated throughout.
U.S. $45.00 CDn $45.00
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