Apocalypse Now: The rigorous pictures of Christopher Wool

Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 7pm, Space04, entry free

Christopher Wool features in the exhibition Warhol Wool Newman. Painting Real as one of today’s most high-profile New York artists. His oeuvre since the mid-1980s is a radical rethinking and reworking of painting in terms of its constructive elements – ranging from “wallpaper patterns” applied with paint rollers, through the apocalyptic citations of the Word Paintings and the spray pictures reminiscent of the graffiti in the streets of New York to the freely painted, large-scale linework and wipings of recent time.

Ulrich Loock, curator at the Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto, previously Director of the Kunstmuseum Lucerne and the Kunsthalle Bern, offers new perspectives on the work of Christopher Wool.

Ulrich Loock
Curator and Deputy Director of the Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto
–2001 Director, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne
1999– Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the HKB, Bern
1985–97 Director, Kunsthalle, Bern
Teaching appointments and guest lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Zurich, the Art Academy in Karlsruhe and the University of Bern
1984 Dissertation (Deconstructions of the work of art by Michael Asher, Daniel Buren and Dan Graham)
1979–83 Studied Art History and Philosophy, Ruhr University, Bochum (Max Imdahl, Bernhard Kerber)
1972–79 Studied art training at the academies of art in Karlsruhe (Wilhelm Loth) and Düsseldorf (Klaus Rinke, Werner Spies)

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