Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, this New York City-based painter moves easily between figuration and abstraction in her work. Influenced by Aboriginal art, Indian theater and architecture, American Abstract Expressionism and European art history and philosophy, Green has a special affinity for the work of Joseph Beuys.

Alex Katz has been viewed as one of the most important figurative painters in America for more than 50 years and has been a significant influence on a great number of younger painters from all over the world. Through his direct images and simple, everyday motifs that are reduced to the essential, but with a monumental format, he has become a chronicler of modern life in the second half of the 20th century. Even though the paintings with their bold, powerful colours contain many potential symbols, they do not tell any stories. Both representational and abstract, focusing more on the surface than on great depth, the works of Katz resemble film stills: the moments before and after are left to the imagination of the observer. This catalogue is a collection of around 40 paintings from the period between 1959 and 2008. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Alex Katz: An American Way of Seeing, October 2009 - February 2010, at Museum Kurhaus Kleve as well as before in Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere/Finnland, and the Musée de Grenoble, France.

Retro 2017 ; Literaturverz. S. 127 - 132

Merz, Mario ; Pistoletto, Michelangelo ; Penone, Giuseppe ; Kounellis, Jannis ; Boltanski, Christian ; Kiefer, Anselm ; Herold, Georg ; Kippenberger, Martin ; Oehlen, Albert ; Polke, Sigmar ; Metzel, Olaf ; Fritsch, Katharina ; Honert, Martin ; Hablützel, Stefan ; Stadtbäumer, Pia ; Kütz, Walter ; Ruff, Thomas ; Mundt, Wilhelm ; Virnich, Thomas ; Pitz, Hermann ; Schütte, Thomas ; Balkenhol, Stephan ; Mucha, Reinhard ; Brandl, Herbert ; West, Franz ; Fischli & Weiss ; Muñoz, Juan ; Gilbert & George ; Art & Language ; Linke, Simon ; Cragg, Tony (Anthony) ; Deacon, Richard ; Woodrow, Bill ; Gober, Robert ; Oursler, Tony ; Chamberlain, John ; Oldenburg, Claes ; Rollins, Tim & K.O.S. ; Schnabel, Julian ; Salle, David ; Sherman, Cindy ; Wall, Jeff ; Warhol, Andy.

This volume presents the latest group of works by Michael Reisch, an artist renowned for his poetic landscape photography. His most recent works seem like photographs and reveal surprisingly illusionistic spatial effects, but are in fact completely fictional. The figurative motifs that they seem to display - folds and distortions in a white surface - are produced by a digital reworking of the images in the virtual space.