#AR Penck

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A.R. Penck  (German, 1939 -2017)

Konstruktion in den Raum hinein 2002 Acrylic on canvas. 90 x 70 cm

Auction 1187  / © Lempertz

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A. R. Penck Selected Artworks

When it comes to the world of contemporary art, A. R. Penck is a name that cannot be ignored. His unique style and enigmatic paintings have captivated art enthusiasts for decades. In this blog post, we delve into the intriguing world of A. R. Penck's paintings, exploring the themes, techniques, and influences that define his iconic works.

A. R. Penck - Self Portrait

Deutsch-Russische-Verwandlung,-1990

Konzert-(mit-Pferd),-1991

Keramik,-Unknown

So-viel-Anfang-war-nie-(Artist-Proof),-1990

Stand-Art-West-III,-1991

Ohne-Titel,-circa-1990

Ohne-Titel,-ca.-1980

Ergebnis,-1990

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Ralf Winkler, better known as AR Penck (1939 - 2017, German), claimed never to have heard of conceptualism at the start of his five-decade career. Despite this, the German artist’s early Standart body of work, developed in isolation behind the Berlin Wall during the late 1960s, chimed with the emerging avant-garde tendencies of his western contemporaries. Like Lawrence Wiener and Joseph Kosuth, Penck, who has died aged 77, sought to develop a system uniting art and language that addressed complex sociopolitical themes; but unlike those American conceptualists, he did so using a primitive, almost childlike, imagery.

Paintings in the Standart series featured a rudimentary stick figure, a motif that would become central in his work. Blank-faced and stiff-bodied, they were often depicted with crudely drawn male genitals against an abstract background. A stick man dominates the frame of a 1971 painting, for example; daubed in black acrylic it stands against a riotous background of red circular splodges and rectangular markings. A couple of further primitive-style motifs interrupt the expressionist paint handling. An untitled work from 1968 shows a similar figure, stretched to appear almost comically thin. A circle, square, star and other symbols surround the human figure.

For Penck, the stick figure, though a motif that dates back to cave art, represented the first ideogram of a proposed new system of communication that combined text, symbol and image. Standart was a conflation of the English word “standard” and the German Standarte, meaning “banner”. For the artist, these works operated like flags, emblematic of human universality. Penck’s interest in networks, and a prescient desire for the unhindered flow of ideas between individuals, also led to an interest in early computer technology. A 1968 oil painting on board, titled Primitive Computer, proposed a new 45-symbol alphabet for the coming information age.

“Every Standart can be imitated and reproduced and can thus become the property of every individual,” Penck wrote in 1970. “What we have here is a true democratisation of art.” These paintings, and the accompanying sculptures, often made from discarded rubbish (as art supplies were scarce and often restricted in the German Democratic Republic), were smuggled to West Berlin, where they gained an immediate audience.

In his work Penck both embraced the utopian essence of socialism – he was one of the few of his peers to initially stay in East Berlin after construction of the wall in 1961 – while reflecting the harsh realities of the state’s authoritative regime. A work from 1969, painted on a blanket, depicts another crude figure in blue trapped within a bulkier counterpart in black. Simply titled Standart, it brings Penck’s creeping interest in existentialism and alienation to the fore, and it is perhaps natural that a cold war audience would find succour in allusions to claustrophobia and uniformity.

Continue reading https://www.theguardian.com/.../may/05/ar-penck-obituary

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by AR Penck at Kuppersmuhle Museum in Duisburg Germany | iain masterton photography https://www.pinterest.es/pin/152629874854066241/

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AR Penck, General a, b, c, 1988, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 120cm. Galerie Terminus, Munich 

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A.R. Penck Now Open

Our new FREE exhibition, A. R. Penck: I Think in Pictures, is now open in Gallery 8.

A. R. Penck (1939–2017) was an internationally acclaimed German artist, best known for his work in painting, drawing, print and sculpture. His interests in systems theory and cybernetics, as well as pre-historic cultures and science fiction, guided his art toward an investigation of the relationships between man and society.

This exhibition is not only the first solo show of A.R. Penck’s work inOxford but also his first solo museum exhibition in the UK in over 30 years. It features works from the 1970s and ‘80s that represent the artist’s distinctively energetic style, focussing on the motif of the stick figure. It also features the largest painting to ever be displayed at the Ashmolean.

Now open in Gallery 8.

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Skulptur Projekte Münster

Skulptur Projekte, el encuentro de escultura contemporánea que cada 10 años se propone desarrollar obras con y para el espacio público. La historia del Skulptur Projekte Münster se remonta a la década de 1970 cuando George Rickey colocó su escultura cinética, ”Drei rotierende Quadrate” en la ciudad alemana de Münster. En ese momento hubo una protesta pública significativa contra la colocación de…

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2006 Hamburg

Olympus Pen EE, half-frame

expired film

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A.R. Penck | Standard-west KR6

painted 1982 acrylic on canvas 300.00 x 200.00 cm

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A.R. Penck (German, 1939-2017)

Nashorn (Rhinoceros), 1967

latex paint on masonite.

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A.R. Penck (German, 1939-2017), Ohne Titel (Matador). Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm

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i had to ask young E what the subject of her drawing was, and she told me with a smile that it was a sign prohibiting pooping on the streets…and, surrounding the pooper, all the laughers and pointers-at. this act even makes babies stand in their strollers. kids and adults judge while the animals around remain innocent and flowers keep growing…which is very good. i don’t know what her teacher thought about the drawing.