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Lob der Malkunst: Margret Eicher

Lob der Malkunst: Margret Eicher

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Lob der Malkunst: Margret Eicher
(In Praise of Painting: Margret Eicher)

W028413 | $49.95 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog

Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2020. Organized in association with Haus am Lutzowplatz - Fordererkreis Kulturzentrum Berlin e.V. Published in association with DCV-Dr. Cantz’sche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin.

272 pp. (several pages intentionally uncut at top). Well illustrated (chiefly col.). 29 x 20 cm. Bilingual in English and German. Paperbound.

ISBN 9783969120170

Please note several pages throughout the catalogue are intentionally uncut at the top. Publisher's description: Contemporary Visual Communication in a Historic Weaving Technique. Margret Eicher’s (b. Viersen, Germany, 1955; lives and works in Berlin) large-format tapestries combine the baroque form of the woven picture with familiar motifs excerpted from contemporary media images. She digitizes her sources and then assembles them in painstaking editing work on the computer. The resulting ‘media tapestries' occupy the interface between the traditional work of art as a physical object and the electronic noise of the digital realm: two worlds that at first glance would seem to be incompatible yet find themselves in harmonious union in Eicher’s art. In Gottliche Liebe (Divine Love), for example, Caravaggio’s Crowning with Thorns meets a kissing gay couple from a pro-tolerance campaign in Berlin, while Botticelli’s Birth of Venus is sampled together with a subway station in Frankfurt. In conceptual art production, the creative idea is central and its realization becomes secondary; in a final twist, Lob der Malkunst (Praise of Painting) elects this practice as its artistic lodestar. Eicher installs the painter Martin Kippenberger in the interior of Berlin’s Paris Bar, where he poses as a dandy and presides over a clash between the different tendencies in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Germany -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Textile/Fiber Arts -- Decorative Arts and Design ; Women Artists --

Artist(s): Eicher, Margret

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