Coming up on the 70th birthday of Czech master Marcus Lupertz, this handsome, large-format exhibition catalog presents some of his fine drawings, small sculptures and bozetti (sketches or maquettes) from a recent Regensburg show. Last year's comprehensive retrospective in Bonn was devoted to the large-scale sculpture and painting of this internationally lauded pillar of the Modern movement. The works here are some of Lupertz's most beautiful, influenced by classicism and mythology (or reacting against it), featuring small oils, watercolor and striking hand-painted sculptures. In an accompanying text, Andrea Madesta shows how Lupertz is constantly questioning the art that has gone before him, staging himself as a "force at the heart of creation.
It's a surprise to see ultra-rad skateboard culture clothing manufacturerCarhartt underwriting an exhibition catalog of fine photography - except whenthe artist is skateboard punk chronicler and performance artist Sergej Vutuc.The young Bosnian artist started skateboarding before he was 10, using improvisedequipment on the streets of the former Yugoslavia. Whether he's following youngskaters or elderly dancers on the streets of Germany or Pittsburg, he chronicleshis surroundings with rare empathy in dynamic black and white photos. He doesn'thesitate to scratch his prints, interfere with images, let things go blurry; it's allpart of the improvisational feel. Says Vutuc, ''Tom Waits make me feel common.Make dead city more nice.
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