TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kehlmann, Daniel
TI  - Neo Rauch. Propaganda
T2  - Spotlight
SN  - 9781644230114
U1  - 759.3 RAU 22
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - David Zwirner Books
KW  - Neo Rauch
KW  - Painting
KW  - Contemporary
KW  - Germany
N1  - Becoming Caligari : A Fantasy inspired by Neo Rauch's Art, a short story by Daniel Kehlmann
N2  - Rauch is widely celebrated for his captivating compositions that bring together figurative painting and surrealism into an entirely new kind of visual encounter. They often hint at broader narratives and histories, seemingly reconnecting with artistic traditions of realism, but they remain dreamlike and impossible to reduce to a single story. Though his art is highly refined and executed with great technical skill, Rauch himself stresses the intuitive, deeply personal nature of how he works. As the artist notes, "My process is far less a reflection than it is drawing from the sediments of my past, which occurs in an almost trance-like state."  Eight large-scale canvases and seven smaller, more intimately scaled works continue the artist's exploration of figuration and the ambiguous nature of meaning in visual art. In some of the larger works, the saturation of the canvas with characters, objects, and forms, all rendered at different scales and in conflicting arrangements, creates a collage-like quality.  A figurative scrapbook of Rauch's personal iconography.  The publication features a short story by German novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann, which was inspired by the paintings in this book. The fantastical text moves between present-day New York and an unknown time of enchanted forests, knights, and witches, exploring the many layers found in Rauch's canvases.  Book published to coincide with the Exhibition: Propaganda at the  David Zwirner Gallery, Hong Kong (26.03.2019 - 04.05.2019)
ER  -