Christoph Schreier

Christine Mehring

Blinky Palermo

Described by The New York Times art critic Roberta Smith as a precocious art star, German artist (Blinky) Palermo (19431977) has been associated with distinct twentieth-century art practices, from abstraction to Minimalism and Conceptual art. But his diverse body of work in fact defies easy classification. Throughout his brief and influential career leading all the way up to his untimely death at the age of 33Palermo executed paintings, objects, installations, and works on paper that mined various contextual and semantic issues at stake in the construction, exhibition, and reception of works of art, eternally stretching and questioning the boundaries of every medium he touched. This fully illustrated catalogue features new scholarship by Christine Mehring and Christoph Schreier and documents the 2013 exhibition at David Zwirner in New York. It is the first publication to tackle Palermos late work, which is characterized by explorations of the tensions between material and color, surface and depth, and figuration and abstraction focusing in particular on the paper works he produced between 1976 and 1977, the last year of his life. Less a system builder than an analyst working on intuition, writes Schreier in his catalogue essay, Palermo explored surface, shape, and colorthe constituent elements of the imagewith the aim of turning them into actors with a lively and delicately balanced play of forces. The simplicity of the artists vision is beautifully evinced by the catalogues vibrant color plates, which reveal every stroke and each grain of paper shining through from behind the pigment.

Palermo: Works on Paper 1976-1977

Gerhard Richter

Jon L. Seydl

Jeanne Anne Nugent

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early Work, 1951-1972

German-French artist Wols (Wolfgang Schulze -- 1913-1915) rose to fame in the post- 1945 Euopean art scene as the founder of Informel (or 'gestural abstraction') painting. His photography has previously been presented as studies for his art. Here they are presented as seminal works on their own. The portraits, fashion photographs, still lifes are accompanied by an essay on various printings, bibliography and translation of The Photography of Wolfgang Schultz, a 1932 text by Dutch cultural critic, H. van Loon. (Harvard University Art Museums)

Wols Photographs

Trevor Smith

Wu Hung

Orianna Cacchione

"This publication was produced by the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, on the occasion of the exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, curated by Wu Hung with Orianna Cacchione."

Christine Mehring

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