Combining humor with references to literature, pop culture, metaphysics and personal history, German-born, New York- and Marfa-based painter Charline von Heyl (born 1960) creates paintings that offer in her words, "a new image that stands for itself as fact." This catalog is published on the occasion of her show at Washington DC's Hirshhorn Gallery and Sculpture Garden, her largest US museum survey. The catalog was designed in close collaboration with von Heyl, with a new painting created specifically for the cover and a ...
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Combining humor with references to literature, pop culture, metaphysics and personal history, German-born, New York- and Marfa-based painter Charline von Heyl (born 1960) creates paintings that offer in her words, "a new image that stands for itself as fact." This catalog is published on the occasion of her show at Washington DC's Hirshhorn Gallery and Sculpture Garden, her largest US museum survey. The catalog was designed in close collaboration with von Heyl, with a new painting created specifically for the cover and a rare Z-fold binding that effectively separates the images and texts into two connected yet independent, mirror-image books. New York Magazine 's Jerry Saltz included this catalog in a list of his favorite recent art books, writing: "this beautifully designed book is devoted to the artistic fireworks and optical accomplishments of ... von Heyl, whom one critic has called 'the most exciting American painter right now.' The charismatic intelligence pictured in these ever-changing, highly charged, intensely graphic, and profusely colored paintings may well convince you of that."
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Like New. Size: 9x1x11; 2 volumes bound as 1. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. "Charline von Heyl, one of today's most inventive painters, has received international acclaim for her cerebral, yet deeply visceral artworks that upend conventional assumptions about composition, beauty, narrative, design, and artistic subjectivity. Combining keen humor, a rigorous, process based practice, and references to a broad array of sources including literature, pop culture, metaphysics and personal histories, von Heyl creates paintings that are neither figurative nor abstract, but instead present in her words 'a new image that stands for itself as fact. ' The richly illustrated catalogue has been designed in close collaboration with the artist." This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
