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Abstract Painting Now!

Kunsthalle Krems, Walther König Verlag, 2017

Published on the occasion of the group exhibition, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria.
217 pages, Deutsch/ English, ISBN 9783901261701, With an introduction of Florian Steiniger, and essays by Heinrich Klotz, Ulrich Loock and Demetrio Paparoni.

Abstraction is considered one of the most important formal articulations of modernism. The consistent analysis of the medium down to the zero point in the avant-garde of the 1910s was followed by a steady revival of non-representational painting, especially in Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel and Minimal Art. In the postmodern abstraction of the 1960s, there was a scepticism towards painting and creative authorship, which was countered with sensuality and intuition in the postmodern phase from the 1980s onwards. With around 50 artistic positions such as Jason Martin, Gerhard Richter, Sean Scully, Katharina Grosse and others, the catalogue focuses on the current international situation of the non-representational panel painting.