Messensee: Beyond Contradictions

ISBN-13: 9783777422947 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2015 / 144 str.

Jurgen Messensee

Opis

Austrian artist Jurgen Messensee is hard to categorize: his work in painting, drawing, and sculpture has so many facets that focusing on any one risks distorting the larger picture of his artistic achievement. This volume takes a wide-ranging view of his work, offering more than seventy color illustrations of his art in different media and forms, and supplementing them with his own words: his meditations on space and spaces and his philosophical interpretations of the marking of art. The result is both a depiction of the work of a master contemporary artist and a chance to peek into his mind as it works out the problems that lead to his creations."

"Ich habe immer versucht, anfänglich instinktiv, später bewusst, das entstehende Problem des Raumes bzw. der Räume zu verstehen", so der vielfach ausgezeichnete Jürgen Messensee ( 1936 in Wien), der in der österreichischen zeitgenössischen Kunst seinen festen Platz hat. Hinter seinem Schaffen steht stets die Frage nach dem Sein und dem, was wir als solches wahrzunehmen glauben. Dazu gehört in erster Linie die Beschäftigung mit Raum und Zeit, aber auch, und das zeigt der Band sehr schön, die Reflexion über Raum und Räume. Ein eindrucksvoller Blick in die Denkweise und Philosophie des Künstlers Messensee.'I have always tried at first instinctively, later consciously to understand the evolving problem of space and spaces, respectively'. These are the words of the prize-winning artist Jürgen Messensee (born 1936 in Vienna) who is firmly established within the Austrian contemporary art scene. Questions relating to our existence and to what we think to perceive as our existence are central to his artistic output. This volume includes not only his exploration of time and space but also, his interpretations and meditations on space and spaces. This book is an impressive glimpse at Jürgen Messensee s philosophy and way of thinking.