Sven Kroner /
The acrylic paintings by the D̈usseldorf-based painter Sven Kroner (1973) have an element of longing nourished by memories of things past. At the same time, they also tell of the desire for fateful unpredictability and irrationality. What the viewer often initially reads as the pleasant feeling of a...
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Hatje Cantz Verlag,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
Publication Dates: | [2017] |
Literature type: | Book |
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German English |
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Summary: |
The acrylic paintings by the D̈usseldorf-based painter Sven Kroner (1973) have an element of longing nourished by memories of things past. At the same time, they also tell of the desire for fateful unpredictability and irrationality. What the viewer often initially reads as the pleasant feeling of an idyll in the style of the old masters, frequently dissolves into an experience imbued with irony and unreality: it is not an airplane that comes down over Kroner?s model railroad-like fir forests, but rather a vessel. The coast guard suffers shipwreck on rich green stretches of land, with no sea in sight. These skillfully staged inconsistencies cause the viewer to experience the naturalistic as the fantastic, and vice versa. The monograph presents a first opportunity to become acquainted with this oeuvre and its development. |
Item Description: | Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at: Galerie der Stadt Backnang, September 23-November 19, 2017; Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Kunstverein L̈ubeck, October 23-December 11, 2016; Stedelijk Museum Kampen, June 25-September 11, 2016. |
Carrier Form: | 159 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157). |
ISBN: |
9783775742948 3775742948 |
Index Number: | ND588 |
CLC: | J233(516) |
Call Number: | WG/J233(516)/K937 |