Sigmar Polke: Miracle of Siegen

Sigmar Polke has been experimenting for more than 40 years with different styles and subject matter as well as with a variety of materials and techniques. His creative diversity is demonstrated powerfully in the new group of works presented in this book, the so-called lenticular pictures, or lens paintings. Polke applies a layer of structure gel, usually used to thicken acrylic paint, to a previously painted picture and then slides a saw-toothed scraper over the surface, to which he later adds more paint. The resulting works have an unexpected three-dimensional quality, providing the viewer with different images according to the angle from which the painting is viewed. Photographs showing the paintings in progress all specially selected for the book by Polke reveal the artist s idiosyncratic use of surface, his application of colour and his subtly humorous way of combining abstraction and realism.

Details

Personalities

Polke Sigmar

Type

Book

Place of publication

Cologne

Publisher

DuMont

Year

2008

Number of pages

126 pages

Language

German, English

ISBN

9783832190484

Open stacks or available on request

Open stacks

Illustrations

Yes

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

709.203 Pol

Volumes

1

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