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Autor: H.W. Holzwarth
Editorial: Taschen
Lenguaje: Español
ISBN13: 9783836535625
Reseña: His painting spells TRBL. Exploring Wools meanings and messages in an exhaustive monograph. In-your-face achingly simple deceptively frank the work of Christopher Wool is so very New York. Though he owes a debt to abstract expressionism and pop art he completely transcends - even demolishes - these genres. Whether its a text-based painting or an abstract spray-painted piece his work is immediately engaging. Wool questions painting like many other artists in his generation but he doesnt provide any easy answers. The harder you look the harder you look as he titled one of his word paintings is an excellent example of how he states the obvious whilst provoking us to think deeper about what seems obvious. Christopher Wool became known in the mid-1980s through allover paintings produced with rubber rollers commonly used to simulate decorative wallpaper patterns on walls. By 1988 he had hit stride with his dry dead-pan word paintings (Trbl Riot Sell the House Sell the Car Sell the Kids) while continuing to explore the possibilities of pattern painting. Since the 1990s he has been developing the painterly qualities of his work using a mostly black-and-white palette starting from abstract lines drawn with a spray gun or layered stock images overpainting silkscreens on linen wiping out images with a widening variety of media a process that can involve photography silkscreen and in the new millennium also the computer. Exploring Wools work in close over 400 pages this monograph is exhaustive in scope and depth. All work phases are covered in large-scale reproductions and accompanied by production Polaroids and installation photos by Wool himself. Editor Hans Werner Holzwarth has previously collaborated on several catalogs and artists books with Wool. Essays and analyses by Glenn OBrien Jim Lewis Ann Goldstein Anne Pontegnie Richard Hell and Eric Banks make this book a great read as well as a definitive study of the story so far.
