Tanja Pirsig-Marshall

Hermann Arnhold

Kirsten Claudia Voigt

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur

Sean Scully, one of the most important abstract artists of our time, allows conflict to be carried out in his works?conflict between structure and emotion, body and spirit, impulsivity and reflection. The Irish-American painter has been reinterpreting abstract art since the 1960s, not as a purely formal exploration of color, form, planes, structure, body, and light, but as a medium whose means of expression is tied to external and internal moods, literary influences, and physical experiences. Scully has articulated this attitude in many lectures, interviews, and texts, which comprise the starting point for the exhibition 'Vita Duplex'. With more than one hundred illustrations, the eponymous catalogue provides a comprehensive look at the artist?s visual oeuvre, as well as his world of ideas, and defines its place in the history of abstract painting.00Exhibition: Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany (24.03- 05.08.2018) / LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany (Spring 2019).

Vita Duplex

Sean Scully

Volker Adolphs

Annegret Hoberg

Klara Drenker-Nagels

The friendship between Franz Marc (1880-1916) and August Macke (1887-1914) was of vital importance to both painters. Their close bond lasted four years and came to an abrupt end with the death of Macke shortly after the outbreak of World War I. This catalogue brings together paintings, watercolors, drawings, handcrafts, objects and documents from these two artists, demonstrating the extent to which they influenced one another in their work. While Macke, seven years younger than Marc, took a sensual and spontaneous approach to the visual world, his friend possessed an elevated, theoretical vision, seeking the spiritual unity of existence through the image. Despite conceptual, cultural and political differences, a deep mutual affection characterized their joint undertakings, such as the exhibitions of the Blaue Reiter or their conversations on Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism and the work of their contemporaries.

Tanja Pirsig-Marshall

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