Mark Wallinger (Bilingual edition)

This catalogue highlights Mark Wallinger's Action Paintings, which are centered around light and movement, paying homage to Harold Rosenberg's term. Created by sweeping paint-laden hands across the canvas in active freeform gestures, they reference the body and use plasticine to create soft, relief-like effects.

Format: Hardback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Accompanying the inaugural exhibition of renowned British artist Mark Wallinger's paintings in Switzerland, this comprehensive catalogue delves into his extensive collection of large-scale Action Paintings, complemented by a series of new, polychrome small-scale paintings. While these works may differ significantly from the works of French Impressionism, the Museum Langmatt's collection remains centered around the fundamental elements of light and movement, as exemplified in Wallinger's artistic approach. A tribute to the term coined by Harold Rosenberg, who asserted that for action painters, the canvas was not a mere representation but an extension of the mind itself, these performative artworks transcend the boundaries between image and action. Through sweeping paint-laden hands across the canvas in dynamic freeform gestures, they evoke a profound connection to the body, heightened by the use of plasticine, which creates soft, relief-like effects.

Weight: 700g
Dimension: 270 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783775753043