Paul Thek: Artist's Artist



1/2009
THEK, PAUL - MADRID, MUSEO REINA SOFIA -

Artist's Artist. Catalogue ed. by Harald Falckenberg & Peter Weibel. Karlsruhe/Hamburg/Madrid 2007-09. Interview von Harald Szeemann. 4to. 640 S. mit 500 (300 farb.) teils ganz- bzw. doppelseit. Abb., Bibliographie, Chronologie, . - Text in engl. Sprache.

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Paul Thek occupied a place between high art and low art, between the epic and the everyday. During his brief life (1933-1988), he went against the grain of art world trends, humanizing the institutional spaces of art with the force of his humor, spirituality, and character. Twenty years after Thek's death from AIDS, we can now recognize his influence on contemporary artists ranging from Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman to Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley, and Paul McCarthy, as well as Kai Althoff, Jonathan Meese, and Thomas Hirschhorn. This book brings together more than 300 of Thek's works - many of which are published here for the first time - to offer the most comprehensive display of his work yet seen. The book presents Thek's work in dialogue with contemporary art by young artists, includes painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation work, as well as photographs documenting the room-size environments into which Thek incorporated elements from art, literature, theater, and religion.

Peter Weibel, geb. 1944 in Odessa. Studierte Literatur, Film, Mathematik, Medizin und Philosophie in Wien und Paris. 1989-94 Direktor des Instituts für Neue Medien an der Städelschule in Frankfurt. 1992-95 künstlerischer Leiter der Ars Electronica in Linz, 1993-99 Österreich-Kommissär der Biennale von Venedig und künstlerischer Leiter der Neuen Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum. Seit 1999 Vorstand des Zentrums für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe. Zahlreiche Professuren, u.a. an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien.

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