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Claes Oldenburg
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Alan Uglow
Towards the end of the 1960s, against the background of Minimal Art, Colourfield Painting and Concept Art, Alan Uglow began emptying out the pictorial surfaces of his paintings and translating them into monochrome worlds. His reduced colour plane constellations, outlined in colour and often emerging over years in series form, relate to the white of the medium and the wall in ever-new visual creations. Usually presented as installations, the works exist in the in-between space of picture, relief and architectural element ndash; constantly in debate with the presence and expansion of painting in the space. Despite the absolute minimisation of painting resources and an intrinsic timelessness in the images, Uglow's works rarely have to be extricated from a real reference, as the titles of the works show: they refer to the artist's everyday reality and suggest specific visual experiences. The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Alan Uglow, February - May 2010, Museum Haus Esters, Kunstmuseen Krefeld. English and German text.
Imi Knoebel: Core Pieces
Imi Knoebel is one of the most important European representatives of non-representational art, and he has devoted a lifetime to developing it. Around 1966, his first work was influenced by Kazimir Malevich's paintings and by Joseph Beuys, who taught him.Layering, sequencing, and stacking became his trademark techniques once he discovered masonite and its potential for creating large three-dimensional work. However, Knoebel also adopted a constrasting approach by producing extremely pared-down images which have no material form, to represent the immaterial.This catalogue of the exhibition (Imi Knoebel: Kernstücke (Key Works), at Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters, 22 March - 23 August 2015) provides a concentrated review of his early years; a newly-created complex of his works provides an insight into the essence of his multi-form work.English and German text.
Michael Craig-Martin
'Less is Still More' is a homage to Mies van der Rohe. In 2012-2013 British conceptual artist Michael Craig-Martin devised and painted a series of 17 paintings in highly varied formats specially for the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld.
Peter Halley
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Krefeld Villas
Presents 2 villas, now museums, designed by Mies van der Rohe. A further understanding is given by examining specific on-site interventions by artists Yves Klein, Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra and Ernst Caramelle.
Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith occupied herself right from the outset with the human body and with the human condition in the broadest sense. Unlike classical figurative sculpture, which hides the insides of the body, Smith's work also visualizes the organs and the body fluids, the fragility and transitory nature of the body. Smith's work draws from myths and links spirit, human, and animal worlds. Starting from a silk embroidery from the 18th century Smith developed a scenario consisting of different narrative threads that revolve around the theme of the 'unmarried woman'. With excursions into Christian iconography as well as into the history of the American post-colonial era, she speaks also to the inspired female artist as a prototype of the veritable creative woman. Once again she brings a wealth of material into play, which gives the exhibition its unmistakable character. The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Kiki Smith. Her Home, 2008, at Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, and Kunsthalle Nuremberg. English and German text.
Karin Kneffel: House on the Edge of Town
The oeuvre of Karin Kneffel, one of Europe's most remarkable painters, is characterized in equal measure by continuity and intensity. Her pictorial language has consistently expanded since her beginnings as a master student of Gerhard Richter: extreme details, abrupt links between views from up close and from a distance, and irritating reflections are among the ingredients of her paintings that are dedicated to an ongoing questioning of reality. At first glance, her works appear realistic due to their attention to detail and illusionism. But certainty recedes upon closer examination--viewers almost literally get the rug pulled out from under them. Featuring texts by Martin Hentschel and Thomas Wagner, the present monograph focuses primarily on a cycle of paintings developed especially for Haus Esters in Krefeld that makes direct reference to the history of the brick villa built by Mies van der Rohe and addresses its existing spatial situations. Here as well, Karin Kneffel blends the present and the past, reality and fiction together in a highly virtuoso and irritating fashion.
Eric Fischl
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