Büttner
Viva Büttner
Born in Jena, Germany in 1954, Werner Büttner was a law student when he befriended artist Albert Oehlen, whose influence prompted him to give up his future law career to take up art. He is now a successful artist based in Hamburg, where he is professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste.
His work has been exhibited with Oehlen's as well as Martin Kippenberger's and is considered to be of the same tradition. Coinciding with the exhibition Werner Büttner: Verkehrte Welt at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg this book covers about 150 pieces from the last two decades - from oil on canvas and drawings to collages, personal photographs, and invitations.
Also included are a foreword by Zdenek Felix (director of Deichtorhallen), five texts by friends and colleagues of Büttner (Michael Diers, Harald Falckenberg, Friedrich Wolfram Heubach, Fritz Kramer, and Rudolf Schmitz), an exhibition chronology, and a bibliography.
About the editor:
Uta Grosenick has worked at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg and the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, and was curator at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Since 1996 she has been working as freelance editor (Art at the Turn of the Millennium, Women Artists) and organizer of exhibitions.
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Büttner
Grosenick, Uta (ED)
Flexicover, 18.4 x 24.5 cm (7.2 x 9.6 in.), 192 pages, $ 19.99 ISBN: 978-3-8228-3037-6
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German Availability: Not in Stock |
- Reviews (1 items)
"Taste always takes the first set in its on-going tennis match with politics. This pattern doesn't mean that paintings considered bad can't, in time, find revenge in being understood as more complex. Two recent books, Martin Kippenberger and Buttner (both Taschen 2003) attest to discourse's eventual victory. Both books, packed with hundreds of illustrations, assume these artists are major figures needing proper contextualization. More than mere monographs, they're here to right all the wrongs, to do battle with all the misreadings, of the last twenty years."
Art Papers, Atlanta, United States
Art Papers, Atlanta, United States
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