Wednesday, February 13, 2008

SIGMA POLKE : MUSIC FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE

SIGMAR POLKE : Music from an Unknown Source
Bangkok University Gallery, Rangsit Campus
5 November - 3 December 2005

Music from an Unknown Source brings together a series of 40 gouaches by Sigmar Polke, from 1996. Since the early 1960s, Polke has been concerned with the relationship between the reality as contained in a picture and reality itself, the relation between art and daily life. In the gouaches of this exhibition, Polke makes the dripping and flowing of paint his theme, contrasting the unpredictable flow of paint with an overlaid regular and predictable screen system. These pictures give a significant insight into Polke’s artistic oeuvre and belong among the most significant of the German postwar era. An exhibition of the Institut Für Auslandsbeziehungen/IFA and the Goethe Institut.

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