MARTIN KIPPENBERGER : Lieber Maler, male Mir (Dear painter, paint for me)
Mar 8 - Apr 23, 2005
Reception: Tuesday, March 8th 6:00 - 8:00pm
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition of Martin
Kippenberger in New York, the series "Lieber Maler, male mir" (Dear
painter, paint for me) from 1981.
This series of large realist paintings, which will be shown together
for the first time since their initial exhibition in Berlin over twenty
years ago, has had an enormous influence on contemporary painting to
this day.
The "Lieber Maler, male mir" paintings incorporate all key aspects of
Kippenberger's artistic vocabulary: his own persona and
self-mythologizing; Germanic historical and cultural references; and
the influences of his travels and explorations around the world.
The artist commissioned a professional billboard painter called Werner
to realize his concept for these paintings. Kippenberger fully
acknowledges Werner's role in this project, as if to ridicule the
pretensions of the art scene of the day in Germany.
The exhibition and accompanying fully-illustrated catalogue, with a
text by Alison Gingeras, have been prepared in collaboration with the
Estate of Martin Kippenberger, Cologne.
For further information, please contact the gallery.
980 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK NY 10021
TEL 212 744 2313
FAX 212 772 7962
