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1086 - Kippenberger, Martin
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Kippenberger, Martin Through Puberty to Success. Berlin, NGBK, 1981. 80 leaves. 8°. Paperback with photograph (scuffed and bumped). A very rare first publication on a key phase in Martin Kippenberger’s early work. The catalogue was published to mark the exhibition ‘Lieber Maler, male mir .’ at the RealismusStudio of the Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, and accompanied the exhibition from 6 March to 16 April 1981. The NGBK lists the publication as having 158 pages, numerous illustrations, no ISBN, and Prestel Verlag as a collaborating partner; this copy is part of a limited edition of just 500 copies. - The publication is far more than a conventional exhibition catalogue: in the montage style characteristic of Kippenberger, it combines photographs, newspaper clippings and everyday material, poems, aphorisms, as well as private and public visual worlds. It is precisely this intermingling of fiction and fact, self-staging, irony and biographical material that makes the book a unique artist’s book and a key document of the early reception of Kippenberger’s work. The NGBK emphasises that, in the accompanying publication, Kippenberger brought together newspaper cuttings, photographs, poems and aphorisms in order to deliberately blur the boundaries between the private and the public. Closely related to this is the exhibition “Lieber Maler, male mir .”, with which Kippenberger radically subverted the conventional image of the autonomously creative painter-genius in 1981. For the series, he had large-format paintings executed by a cinema poster artist based on his own designs, thereby calling into question authorship, originality, delegation and the mechanisms of the art world. The Berlin presentation comprised nine large-format works and is today regarded as one of the artist’s defining early projects. Accompanying the exhibition is the equally independently conceived, lavishly illustrated catalogue *En cas de réclamation les sentiments vous seront remboursés*, published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the Halle Sud, Centre d’expositions de la Ville de Genève, from 24 September to 29 October 1989. The first edition comprises 94 unpaginated pages and is documented as a lithographically printed catalogue; one copy is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Together, this forms a particularly appealing collection of two early and important Kippenberger publications. Published to mark the exhibition “Lieber Maler male mir …” at the Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (NGBK), 6 March – 16 April 1981. - The first few leaves are partly loose. Overall in good condition. - Included: ‘En cas de réclamation, les sentiments vous seront remboursées’. - Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. - Overall in good condition. A very rare first publication from a pivotal phase in Martin Kippenberger’s early oeuvre. The catalogue was published to mark the exhibition “Lieber Maler, male mir .” at the RealismusStudio of the Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, accompanying the exhibition held from 6 March to 16 April 1981. The NGBK records the publication as comprising 158 pages with numerous illustrations; issued without an ISBN and in collaboration with Prestel Verlag, this copy is part of an edition limited to just 500 copies. The publication is far more than a conventional exhibition catalogue: in a montage characteristic of Kippenberger, it combines photographs, newspaper cuttings and everyday printed matter, poems, aphorisms, and private and public imagery. It is precisely this intermingling of fiction and fact, self-representation, irony and biographical material that makes the book an autonomous artist’s book and a key document of the early reception of Kippenberger’s work. The NGBK notes that, in the accompanying publication, Kippenberger brought together newspaper clippings, photographs, poems and aphorisms in order deliberately to blur the boundaries between the private and the public. Closely linked to this is the exhibition “Lieber Maler, male mir .”, through which Kippenberger radically challenged the conventional image of the autonomously creative artistic genius in 1981. For the series, he commissioned a cinema-poster painter to produce large-format paintings based on his own designs, thereby raising questions of authorship, originality, delegation and the workings of the art world. The Berlin exhibition comprised nine large-format works and is now regarded as one of the artist’s defining early projects. Also included is the independently conceived and richly illustrated catalogue *En cas de réclamation les sentiments vous seront remboursés*, published for the exhibition of the same title at Halle Sud, Centre d’expositions de la Ville de Genève, from 24 September to 29 October 1989. The first edition comprises 94 unpaginated pages and is recorded as a lithographically printed catalogue; a copy is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Together, they form a particularly appealing collection of two early and important Kippenberger publications. This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This lot is subject to the standard tax regime. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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