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Thomas Bayrle: I've a Feeling Were Not in Kansas Anymore

Thomas Bayrle: I've a Feeling Were Not in Kansas Anymore
Library Shelf Location 18.BAYR
Publication Date Jun 2009
Description Catalogue of an exhibition held at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Barcelona), 6 Feb. - 19 Apr. 2009. Bibliography: p. 146. Summary Not only Mao before the masses, but also dozens of housewives armed with brooms, scores of Gillette razors and hundreds of Mon Cheri chocolates. In a play on perceptions in which nothing (or everything) is what it seems, in the midst of a profusion of food tins, cleaning products, cars, reinforced concrete buildings and motorways that populate the works of Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937). Acclaimed as one of the voices of Pop Art in Germany, the truth is that Bayrle's ironic, repetitive, almost grotesque visual displays ultimately subvert the paradigms of the Pop movement. His works are practically psychedelic maps constructed from mosaics of images and hallucinatory to a point far beyond pop's hypnotic and surface effects. This book, based on the first retrospective devoted to this artist of artists, reproduces part of his work.
ISBN 9788492505029
Quantity 1
Pages 156 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Authors Lars Bang Larsen, Andreas Huyssen, Chus Martinez, Ingo Niermann
Format Paperback
Publisher Museu d'art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Related Artist Thomas Bayrle
Categories Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture
Artist's Nationality German
Language English

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