Depuis près de soixante ans, Gabriele et Ana Braglia collectionnent la peinture moderne. Ce catalogue présente une cinquantaine de leurs oeuvres expressionnistes : aquarelles, dessins et toiles de Nolde, Klee, Jawlenski, Kandinsky, Macke, Munter, Pechstein et Feininger.
Depuis les années 1990, Yinka Shonibare CBE produit des installations et des sculptures très théâtrales, utilisant délibérément comme marque de fabrique des tissus africains dont la signification et l'oigine sont aujourd'hui l'objet de controverses. Il aborde ainsi les thèmes complexes des identités hybrides, du colonialisme et des structures de domination avec ironie. Ce catalogue abondamment illustré balaie trois décennies de création de cet artiste qui fascine.
The Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente (*1952) is one of the main representatives of the postmodern Transavantgarde and Arte Cifra, the Italian version of Neo-Expressionism. Among his extensive oeuvre, the publication focuses on Clemente's enigmatic self-portraits and presents insights into his latest works series.
Clemente's travels, alternating between India, New York and Europe, contribute to the remarkably multi-faceted aspects of his works. The leitmotifs, which vacillate between a figurative and abstract approach, are the human body as well as echoes of Indian culture and philosophy. The catalogue concentrates on the pastels, watercolours, gouaches and printed graphics, including important series like the Amalfi-Watercolors, the Tarots and From the Terreiro, whose subject lies in the poems of Adam Zagajewski, as well as the cycle of printed graphics on Alberto Savinio's war diary Departure of the Argonaut.
Apocalypse, the city, war, religion, the portrait, exile and existential trauma - Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) is regarded as one of the outstanding artists of German Expressionism. With the accuracy of a seismograph he recorded in his pictorial and literary works the shocks which reverberated through his time. To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the Jewish artist Ludwig Meidner attention has been focused on the works produced during his period of exile in London between 1939 and 1953 - sketchbooks, watercolours and charcoal and chalk drawings produced under the most difficult conditions. They represent an intense mixture of internal experience and contemporary commentary. With merciless directness and symbolic condensation the works tell of terror, isolation, persecution and destruction as well as a grotesquely absurd world which Meidner spotlighted in an idiosyncratic way, combining mockery with mordant humour and sarcasm with bizarre exaggeration.
