\"Better than de Kooning\" sounds like an unfortunate genre joke, because \"nobody can paint better than de Kooning\", and yet it is an ideal title for a group exhibition. In the mid-1970s, Peter Saul painted a series of pictures of women that parodistically refer to Willem de Koonig's \"Woman\" pictures (1950-53). He meticulously imitates the \"brush strokes\" and the impasto in a stylistic mix of pointillism and graffiti art, but turns up the colour controls and lets the abstract expressionist painting and the women themselves melt like soft ice cream in a \"Daliesque\" manner (see the article \"Un Autre Monde\" by Marcus Weber and \"Ice Creams, Atom Bomb, I-Screens, Data Bomb\" in the book by Esther Leslie). In 2008, Saul painted another version of these cartoon-like neon avatars and called the picture: \"Better than de Kooning\" ... a relief of US reality.<\/p>\n
Artists:
\nTim Berresheim, Jana Euler, Maria Lassnig, Lee Lozano, Michel Majerus, Dieter Krieg, Katrin Plav\u010dak, Jon Rafman, Gunter Reski, Peter Saul, Matthias Schaufler, Jim Shaw, Amy Sillman, Sue Williams<\/p>\n
Exhibition:
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Exhibition catalogue, Villa Merkel Esslingen, edited by Andreas Baur and Marcus Weber
\nTexts (German\/English) by Andreas Baur, Esther Leslie, Marcus Weber and an e-mail conversation between Marcus Weber and Peter Saul
\n152 p. with 50 b\/w and 120 colour illustrations
\nFormat 28 x 21 cm, gatefold 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