Sigmar Polke, 'The Editions', me Collectors Room, Berlin
Monographic show of 150-odd print works from the collection Kunstraum am Limes, undertaken between the early 1960s and 2009.
idolises printing errors, e.g. build up on plate, holes in the grid > constantly used these as a motif (e.g. in first couple images) // a structural fault in the dotted grid
worked over prints with paint, ink, etc. > interferes with what’s underneath, establishing a tension between the different layers and surfaces // potential strategy for myself? do i need to paint the image? (or is that wasting my time?)
real ambiguity in technique, e.g. Wochenendhaus [Weekend House] (1967-8) > "[starting] with a newspaper advertisement, this time Polke developed the composition by copying the found image by hand [...] mimicking the dots of the ad. He then photographically transferred the drawing to a screen for printing; on a second printing screen Polke added the pink and green brushstrokes that overlay the central flower motif. In the resulting print, the uninflected uniformity of the house contrasts with Polke’s vivid, painterly marks, creating an irreconcilable sense of disconnect.”
early collab with Richter Umwandlung [Transformation] (1968)
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Woke up late, supremely hungover, only had limited time.
Warhols were magnificent... Mao, Diamond Dust Shoes // Advertisement > snippets of text, bits removed
Cy Twombly: Thyris > List of words but just on a white canvas in lead pencil, some grubby brown smudges, Middle panel is slightly grey / Empire of Flora, brought to mind Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights
On Kawara — Today series, displayed without the boxes, non-sequential dates, all black backgrounds // also I Got Up (1977) displayed between two sheets of glass so that the backs and fronts of each postcard were visible