Martin Kippenberger: Untitled , Heavy Burschi with Warhol, c.1989-90
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Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) is a special case in art. His life and works were inextricably linked in a remarkable practice that centered on the role of the artist within both the culture and the system of art. With his larger-than-life persona, Kippenberger cast himself as impresario, entertainer, curator, bohemian, collector, ...more
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Martin Kippenberger's premature death in 1997 at the age of 43 brought to an end one of the most prolific and controversial careers in 20th-century art. While some critics dismissed the German painter and sculptor as a showman, others hailed him as the greatest artist of his era. His personal ...more
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Roberta Smith called him the "madcap bad boy of contemporary German art" and also "one of the three or four best German artists of the postwar period." Martin Kippenberger disrupted the status quo throughout his too-short, highly excessive life, not just by making art of every variety and medium but ...more
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Martin Kippenbergers trickster aesthetic was aided and abetted by the owners of 18 his famed Berlin hangout, the Paris Bar. One proprietor, Michel Würthle, provided Kippenberger with a place to make art at his familys house on the island of Syros, Greece; the other, Reinald Nohal, owned a summer retreat ...more
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Painter Christopher Wool has written, "Some of the best stand-up performance I ever saw was Martin [Kippenberger] telling jokes in the back of some bar or restaurant." Which is not to dismiss the legendary German artist, who was at the forefront of the much-storied Cologne art scene of the early ...more
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Martin Kippenberger died in 1997 at the young age of 44. Nach Kippenberger--after Kippenberger--collects together various essays which pave the way for an understanding of his work after the fact, for the next generation. Essayists include Eva Meyer-Hermann, Anke Kempkes, and Manfred Hermes, and more than 250 images illustrate Kippenberger's ...more
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With a mix of irreverence and sincerity, artists John Baldessari and Meg Cranston here tackle nothing less than the question of God. Acting as curators, they have invited 100 artists to respond to one of art's most enduring challenges: picturing the divine. The artists selected are those whose work the ...more