Published by Walther König, Köln. Text by Danièle Cohn, Eddy Devolder, Hans Janssen, Ulf Jensen, Katharina Neuburger, A.R. Penck, Benno Tempel.
This elaborately designed volume features over 200 of A.R. Penck’s (1939-2017) paintings, drawings and sculptures, some of them reproduced here for the first time. Together, they provide a retrospective of an artist who paved the way for a new concept of art in Germany after World War II.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Introduction by Olivier Kaeppelin. Foreword by Adrien Maeght. Text by Danièle Cohn, Ulf Jensen. Interview by Eddy Devolder, Wilfried Dickhoff.
This substantial, superbly printed volume reproduces paintings and drawings from the sketchbooks of neo-expressionist artist A.R. Penck (born 1939), interspersing them with photographs of his sculptures by Andrea Stappert.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Text by Eric Darragon.
Standard I-IV, 1972-1995 introduces a little-known body of work by A.R. Penck (born 1939): 16 colorful felt sculptures made between 1972 and 1995, representing imaginary machines. This volume includes a related series of 30 drawings made between 1986 and 1995, along with five paintings from 1995.
Published by Richter Verlag. exts by Isabelle Graw, Harold Knude, Ingrod Pfeiffer.
Perhaps more than any of his immediate contemporaries, A.R. Penck revived painting as a relevant practice for postwar culture in Germany. His name now seems synonymous with a painting style that is figurative and political in content, a style both gestural and replete with semiotic impact. After his expatriation from East Germany in 1980, Penck coined a universal vocabulary in which the "sign-making" character of prehistoric painting is fused with the content of contemporary history and the concerns of modern science in a single, memorable picture world. A.R. Penck: Works 1961-2006 presents a selection of the artist's large-scale paintings, as well as artist's books, sculptures and objects from 1960 to the present, all of which are discussed against the background of shifts in the contexts and reception of his work.
Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Text by Siegfried Gohr.
The important Neo-Expressionist painter, A.R. Penck, was born Ralf Winkler in Dresden, Germany, in 1939. As an adult, he was closely linked with other East-German exponents of the new figuration, including Jörg Immendorff and Georg Baselitz, all of whom were watched by the secret police and considered dissidents. In the late 1970s Penck's work was included in several shows in West Berlin, and he came to be seen as an important exponent of free speech in the East. Both the violence he witnessed in Dresden as a youth and the aggression and oppression of later twentieth-century politics have remained central themes in his work, which is known for its pictographic, Neo-Primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms. This concise exhibition catalogue brings together works made from 1983 to 1989, so that key signature Standart figure paintings can be seen juxtaposed with some of the artist's less well known work. Essayist Siegfried Gohr writes, "Penck's dual gift, both intellectual and aesthetic, permits him to gaze fearlessly at phenomena from which others have long turned away, whether out of the inability to cope that leads to repression or out of the overconfidence that leads to hasty, noncommittal abstraction. Penck works against the illusions and delusions caused by the way things really are."
A.R. Penck: Rites de Passage
A.R. Penck: Felt Works and Drawings 1972-1995
A.R. Penck Works 1961-2006
A.R. Penck
