PX: THOUGHTS ON PAINTING

Jan Bryant and Leonhard Emmerling

A combination exhibition catalog and provocative theoretical text, this book features two opposed essays disagreeing about the supposed purpose or operation of contemporary painting. The two-part Auckland show features the work of 25 painters from New Zealand, Europe and the United States – Gerhard Richter and Paul McCarthy among them – offering a wide variety of practices. Essays by curators Jan Bryant and Leonhard Emmerling pay particular attention to the legacies of conceptualism. Emmerling’s text takes off from Kant and Adorno to consider painting’s complete uselessness as the basis of its inalienability; Bryant adapts Jean Paulhan’s ideas on cliché and terror to account for aspects of contemporary painting practice that can’t be folded neatly into dominant arthistorical discourses.

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DANIEL RICHTER

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Daniel Richter’s figurative, large-format oil paintings epitomize the contemporary landscape painting of neo-romanticism. This richly designed, oversized exhibition catalog includes dozens of his paintings and collages, narrative pictorial worlds combining set-pieces from the media and everyday life with mastermind-images from pop culture. Whether he’s showing in his native Germany, or at important galleries like Saatchi in London, Regan Projects in Los Angeles or David Zwirner in New York, Richter is recognized as an exciting voice in contemporary art. This catalogue presents Richter’s latest series comprising many large-format paintings for the first time; this book is the only one available on the artist’s work.

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