Konstfacks bibliotek

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Bursting with radiant and unsettling juxtapositions, Neo Rauchrsquo;s paintings are wormholes into worlds of startling psychological power and cultural collisions. His scenes involve the viewer in a history that is at once mythic, intimate, and present. Through a deep consideration of philosophy, art history, literature, and his own dreamscape, Rauchrsquo;s paintings depict the precipices of progress and the struggles of communication. Electrified by their rich palettes, Rauchrsquo;s fragmented landscapes and timeless characters dance between pop and baroque, social and psychological, graphic and painterly.Born in Leipzig in 1960, Rauch learned his trade behind the Iron Curtain. His influences and interests were shaped by personal hardship and the tumultuous changes of East Germany after the Wall fell. In the late 1980s, having finished his studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig under Arno Rink and Bernhard Heisig, he explored diverse approaches to painting in dialogue with works he encountered by Francis Bacon, the New Wild painters, and the pre-Renaissance painters he saw during his travels in Italy. By 1993, he had arrived at the unique style of intertwining figuration and abstraction that characterizes his oeuvre and has brought him international attention and respect.This monograph is the most inclusive collection of Rauchrsquo;s work to date. It offers a generous range of his writings that illuminate the personal, symbolic, and formal complexities of the artistrsquo;s world. Wolfgang Buuml;scherrsquo;s open and sensitive account of a walk through Rauchrsquo;s neighborhood reveals the painterrsquo;s compassion and modesty. Harald Kunde tracks Rauchrsquo;s stylistic development through its main semantic threads and historical influences. Gary Tinterow draws from his work on Rauchrsquo;s exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum to offer the reader a guide to the symbols that form the painterrsquo;s extensive mythology. These essays complement Rauchrsquo;s work with nuanced insights while allowing the images room to speak on their own. Within this atlas, readers will discover the rich density and enigmatic openness of Rauchrsquo;s paintings.