Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Alex Gartenfeld, Stephanie Seidel. Text by Bruce Hainley, Mara Hoberman, Stephanie Seidel.
Created at the threshold of the 21st century, the paintings of Michel Majerus (1967–2002) reveal his passion for technology, youth culture and the power of institutions. This monograph provides a novel look at the artist’s brief but dynamic career.
Published by Matthew Marks Gallery. Conversation with Daniel Birnbaum, John Kelsey.
Before his untimely death at the age of 35, Michel Majerus (1967–2002) helped reset the terms for painting in the 1990s and early 2000s. This fully illustrated catalogue includes a conversation between Daniel Birnbaum and John Kelsey that sheds light on the artist’s dizzying fusion of commercial imagery, painterly gesture and stylistic quotation. As Kelsey explains, Majerus’ work anticipates many of the issues now confronting image makers more than a decade after his death: “His attention to speed and screens--as well as to branding, the viral spread of youth subcultures, screen space, etc.--seems to acknowledge a certain erosion and dispersion already picking up speed.” In Birnbaum’s words, Majerus “concentrated on the things that surrounded him and made possible new ways of organizing visual elements--on the canvas and beyond.” This catalogue, the first US publication on Majerus, also includes an illustrated exhibition history and a detailed bibliography.
Belgian-born artist Michel Majerus died tragically in 2002, at the age of 35, in a plane crash--after which the files for this publication were salvaged from his hard drive. This book is an attempt to reconstruct his intentions as faithfully as possible from the files that he left behind; it is published with the artist's estate and his Berlin gallery, Neugerriemschneider.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Peter Pakesch. Essays by Tilman Baumgärtel, Raimar Stange, Günter Holler-Schuster, Veit Loers, Ralf Christofori and Robert Fleck.
This big, bright, eye-catching softcover documents the tech-inspired and enabled painting and multimedia installations of Michael Majerus, a young star of the late 1990s who died in an accident in November 2002. He left an extraordinary oeuvre, as this follow-up to his L.A. Paintings demonstrates.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 250 pgs / 200 color / 30 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 1/1/2006 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 146
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783883759302TRADE List Price: $35.00 CAD $40.00
Published by Walther König, Köln. Essay by Joachim Jäger.
This is the first monograph on Michel Majerus's Los Angeles paintings--considered his most forceful in the years before his 2002 death. Majerus was known for his works that combined art history and popular culture--canonized styles, repackaging and juxtaposing familiar visual images, graphics and text with varied artistic techniques and genres--all on a colossal scale.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 11 x 7.5 in. / 76 pgs / 40 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/15/2005 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 136
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783883758572SDNR30 List Price: $50.00 CAD $60.00
Michel Majerus
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Michel Majerus: Installations 1992-2002
Michel Majerus: Los Angeles