Slawomir Elsner - Precision And Chance - Hardcover

Bonnet, Anne-Marie; Ohlsen, Nils; Jacobs, Nikolas Werner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3969120616 ISBN 13: 9783969120613

Verlag: Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

International audiences know Slawomir Elsner (b. Wodzislaw Slaski, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) for his naturalistic paintings and abstract watercolors, but it was his brilliantly executed, colorful drawings that made him famous. The technique of his work in crayons is as formidable as it is singular and underlies his many adaptations of legendary works from the history of painting. Do pictures represent reality or distort it? That is the question that guides his inquiries. Many of the works frame accidents, wars, nuclear tests, or other horrible events. By harnessing the means of art to detach their depiction from a documentary setting, Elsner achieves an unrivaled degree of aestheticization; his works are fascinating at first glance, only to fill the beholder with a creeping dread.

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Lea Schäfer is a scholar working at Museum Wiesbaden, Germany. Anne-Marie Bonnet is a renowned art historian and professor at the Bonn University, Germany. Niels Ohlsen is director of the Lillehammer Art Museum. NIkolas Werner Jacobs is a writer and art historian. Andreas Henning is the director of Museums Wiesbaden, Germany.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3969120616
• ISBN 13: 9783969120613
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
• Herausgeber: Schäfer Lea, Henning Andreas
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