Better than de Kooning: Kat. Villa Merkel

By Peter Saul

STONED AGIN«

Better than de Kooning«, this title quoted for a group exhibition sounds like a terrible genre joke, because nobody can paint better than de Kooning«, so it is an ideal title for a group show exhibition. Peter Saul paints during the mid-1970s a series of pictures of women that parodies the Woman«-pictures (1950-53) of Willem de Kooning. He meticulously imitates the brush strokes and the impasto in a stylistic mix of Pointillism and Graffiti Art, turns up the colour regulator, and allows the abstract-expressionist painting and the women themselves to blend in a Daliesque« manner, like soft ice cream (see the text Un Autre Monde« by Marcus Weber and Ice Creams, Atom Bomb, I-Screens, Data Bomb« by Esther Leslie in this book). In 2008, Saul paints another version of this cartoon-like, neon avatar and calls his painting Better than de Kooning« ...a relief of US reality.

Artists:
Tim Berresheim, Jana Euler, Maria Lassnig, Lee Lozano, Michel Majerus, Dieter Krieg, Katrin Plavcak, Jon Rafman, Gunter Reski, Peter Saul, Matthias Schaufler, Jim Shaw, Amy Sillman, Sue Williams

Exhibition:
Villa Merkel Galerien der Stadt Esslingen: 12/9-15/11/2015

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3864421373
• ISBN13: 9783864421372
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.0"