#PaulThek

[abridurif]

Paul Thek, Sicily, 1962-1963

[harvardfineartslib]

Paul Thek (1933–1988) was an American artist, who worked with a wide range of materials to create paintings and sculptures, as well as a number of ambitious installations considered immersive environments before such practice was popular. Thek was featured in more than forty solo exhibitions, and his work featured in sixty group shows at institutions such as the ICA London, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Recognition of Thek as a major international artist came posthumously in the United States when the Whitney Museum of American Art mounted the first American retrospective of his work in 2010.

Thek’s life as an artist had many ups and downs, and at times he struggled financially and had difficulty working. His attitude towards art is best described by his statement: “Real art is done with and for the people … REAL is what FEELS + SMELLS + TASTES.” He generally disliked the New York art scene, where “fancy people looking at a lot of stuff that didn’t say anything about anything to anyone.” (pp. 19 & 17)

Stay tuned for the Part II…

Image 1: Front cover Image 2: The Tomb, 1967, Installation view, Stable Gallery, NY, 1967 Image 3: Ark Pyramid, Easter, 1973, Installation view, Museum of Art Lucerne, 1973

Paul Thek : artist's artist Edited by Harald Falckenberg, Peter Weibel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2008. 639 p.: ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm. English HOLLIS number: 990119859410203941

[moma-prints]

Age of Aquarius, Paul Thek, 1970, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift (purchase, and gift, in part, of The Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection) Size: 7 x 9 3/8" (17.8 x 23.8 cm) Medium: Pencil on notebook paper

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/97543

[larsfredriksvedberg]

#paulthek #peterharvey #nyc #1956 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_UK5EhVV5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1du2q1nkp3rl3

[asalvadorsala]

Fishman, 1969 #PaulThek

[artbookdap]

Recommended reading from @ridinghousebooks #Repost ・・・Three white covers from our critical writings series: 1. ‘Artist, Authorship & Legacy' an interdisciplinary collection of essays written from legal/art market perspectives. Drawing on current cases and legal disputes, this important anthology addresses enduring issues that have become central to the contemporary art world, such as the collision between artists' rights and the rights of the owners of artworks, the problems of authentication and who has the final authority to determine authenticity, and the role of artists' estates as legacy guardians. 2. 'Notes from the Playground' Richard Flood's musing on popular culture, his writings combine the autobiographical with the theoretical, presenting an intimate understanding of renowned contemporary artists. Flood draws on personal correspondence between himself and the artist, including an annotated conversation with Paul Thek; four interviews with Robert Gober during the 1990s; and a detailed description of a portrait sitting at Michael Landy’s studio. Flood’s significant essay on Arte Povera, co-authored with Frances Morris, is also reproduced. 3. Our latest, from February 2020, ‘The Outwardness of Art’ a substantial Adrian Stokes reader synthesising aesthetics and psychoanalysis. It has been nearly 45 years since a broad introduction to Stokes’s work has been commercially available. This volume presents a substantial selection from his published writings, highlighting him as a pioneering thinker of art and a virtuoso of the essay form. “The inclusion of Stokes’s ballet writings, as well as a fascinating essay on Mickey Mouse, reveal the writer’s prescient genre-bending approach. Likewise, Stokes’s demand that art expose itself to the viewer and that the viewer, in turn, interrogate their own interest is a timeless testament to the subjectivity of art writing.” @brooklynrail @goldmankay ~ All available now from our website. #ridinghousebooks #criticalwriting #arttheory #artcriticism #artwriting #adrianstokes #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #richardflood #artistestates #artworld #paulthek #francesmorris #robertgober #michaellandy https://www.instagram.com/p/CVnctM_jUyS/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lisablasstudio]

Now Open: May 1 - June 30, 2021 | Fit to Print | The Print Center, Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, PA – (April 20, 2021) The Print Center is pleased to present Fit to Print, an online exhibition which explores the use of newspapers in art from the post-war era to the present day. It addresses how artists work with the medium of newsprint as a nexus where the studio, everyday life and current events perennially merge and collide. This exploration is particularly timely in an age when truth in news is fractured and suspect, due to the proliferation of sensationalist stories pitted against traditional sources of journalism.

Fit to Print features Lisa Blas, Jennifer Bolande, Chryssa, Laura Fields, Jef Geys, Beatriz González, Helena Hernmarck, Rita Maas, Dan Perjovschi, Donna Ruff, Soledad Salamé and Paul Thek. The works of these twelve modern and contemporary artists reveal slippages between everyday life and what is depicted and recounted on the printed, published page.

[davidhopwood]

#pamphlet #paulthek #gay #artist #photography

[worldfoodbooks]

OPEN TODAY 11-5 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: PAUL THEK - PROCESSIONS (1977) - The great, and very rare, Paul Thek "Processions" catalogue from 1977. - "Processions (: The Tower of Babel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Bandwagon, The Burning Bridge, Bo Jangles, Jack Lantern, Paul Thek, Zhivago)" was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Paul Thek / Processions" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 30 October to 4 December 1977. This handsome, heavily illustrated catalogue is a very important title in the history of Thek's work as it was the only published document dedicated to his immersive, site-specific installations. Selected and arranged by Thek with curator Suzanne Delehanty, these pages help capture the most conceptually complicated and complete environments created by Thek to that date, including The Tomb-Death of a Hippie (1967), A Procession in Honor of Aesthetic Progress... (1968), The Procession/The Artist's Co-op (1969), Pyramid/A Work in Progress (1971-72), A Station of the Cross (1972), Ark, Pyramid (1972), Ark, Pyramid, Easter (1973), and more, along with his Technological Reliquaries (1965-1967), Fishman (1968), works on paper and bronze sculpture (1973-1977), list of exhibitions, bibliography, text by Suzanne Delehanty and more. - A must for any Thek collection. Published once in an edition of 2000 copies. Now very rarely seen. - One copy in the bookshop today and via our website. - #worldfoodbooks #paulthek #1977 #processions (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

[doghaironmyclothes]

5 digital responses to 5 of Remy Cunningham’s responses to Paul Thek questions

1. I felt nervous to approach responding to Remy’s responses because they were each so abstract, and I am usually more comfortable working representationally. These photos were taken before I realized that the index Remy provided at the bottom of her poster gave me context and put me more at ease. I found a question and response that fit how I was responding emotionally and physically, and by doing so, I had reversed Remy’s process of going from representational to abstract. 2. As an example of searching for something representational in an abstract response, and looking for comfort, I was reminded of a sandwich stacked with tons of layers by one of Remy’s responses. An instant connection was the disneychannel.com online game 625 Sandwich Stacker many of us played as children. In the game, you played as the Lilo & Stitch character, Reuben, and caught good ingredients to make a super stack sandwich while avoiding spoiled food that fell from above. To respond to this recalled pastime, I drew this character digitally from memory. Although it felt comfortable, this process of acting on stimuli of the past was a method of abstraction. 3. Another image appeared to me in one of Remy’s responses — a gingko leaf. This time, what I related it to was not the nostalgia of my childhood, but it was from my recent past. I had never appreciated gingko trees before coming to Richmond, but now I see them throughout the seasons everywhere I travel. They evidently can grow in Texas, but I’ve never seen one. The symbol of the gingko leaf reminds me of all that came with my first time living somewhere new and finally feeling some ownership of Richmond. All of the effects and filters in my response represent this process 4. I used a step from Remy’s consistent process for her responses and tried out using Adobe Capture. My favorite lil’ pup in Texas is often on my mind. I’ve thought about the 4 years of her life — which is a huge percentage — I’m missing out on while I’m up here at school, and it can really mess me up. It’s easier and more comfortable to not think about the future (or the present, in this case). 5. The future has no context without the past. There are some things I never want to forget, and I can’t imagine a future without the framework of what I find important in my past. I’m scared of forgetting things about my grandparents. I even feel like I need to remember all the little characteristics I’ve heard about the two I never met. My grandpa, who we called Papa, missed his wife, Mary, every day after she was gone. He had the biggest heart that only grew to allow him to love everyone. However, Mary always kept the biggest slice of his heart. I move forward without my grandparents to remind me of their favorite dessert at Thanksgiving or how they dressed for their high school prom. What I remember is like looking through a kaleidoscope: certain elements show themselves, but they’re arranged in a new way each time, a bit distorted.

[abridurif]

Peter Hujar, Paul Thek in the Palermo Catacombs II, 1963

[harvardfineartslib]

This is the Part II of the life and work of Paul Thek.

Thek formed a close friendship with Peter Hujar, a photographer in the 1960s and 1970s. They were partners at times, and Thek wrote many letters to Hujar during their relationship. He was also friends with Susan Sontag, who dedicated her 1988 book AIDS and Its Metaphors to Thek after he died of the disease in the same year.

In a letter to Sontag dated on December 5, 1975, Thek wrote;

“You see … this letter gets to go on and on too. I wanted to say. Hello Sister Susan, somewhere! I bring you with me always. How long now I’ve kept myself up in the air, a learning process, rakes progress, never settling, raw, etc., I live and yet not I. Just love what you do while you’re doing it, that’s all it is.“ (pp.301)

Image 1: The Wolfman, no year, no accompanying letter Image 2: Neitzsche Caught Beating a Dead Horse Red Handed, no accompanying letter, no legible date Image 3: Selected photographs from Document 3 made by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein, 1973 Image 4: Le Grand Chinois, 1971, oil on canvas, 3 parts, 110 x 370cm

Paul Thek : artist's artist Edited by Harald Falckenberg, Peter Weibel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2008. 639 p.: ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm. English HOLLIS number: 990119859410203941

[moma-prints]

3 Prunes, Paul Thek, 1975, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift Size: 22 1/2 x 33 1/4" (57.2 x 84.5 cm) Medium: Synthetic polymer paint and pastel on newspaper

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/97545

[kunstkioskzh]

Thek, Paul. The wonderful world that almost was. 1995 4°. OKart. 199 S., Ausstellungskatalog Rotterdam, Berlin, Barcelona, Zürich und Marseille #paulthek #thewonderfulworldthatalmostwas #kunstkiosk #kunstkioskimhelmhaus https://bit.ly/39jwPiY https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Jc-7zlRea/?igshid=1tl2eq97ddi7k

[solipsik]

COMME des GARÇONS 21 #commedesgarçons #commedesgarcons #paulthek

[petersheltonblog]

Paul Thek 1933-1988 “Hippopotamus Poison”. 1965 Wax, stainless steel, plexiglass

This chunk of animal flesh is one of my favorite eccentric works of Paul Thek!

www.moma.org

@themuseumofmodernart #paulthek #sculpture #sculptor #contemporaryart #contemporarysculptor #contemporarysculpture #petersheltonsculptor #petersheltonsculpture @petersheltonsculptor @petershelton.com @petershelton @sheltonbigart #petershelton #bigart #sheltonbigart (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5QhBjDF15k/?igshid=1au6h3f6mc3ob