Bøger af Christian Malycha

This catalogue gathers a selection of artists who, aspiring to a more "beautiful world," have elected to construct their own: Thomas Arnolds, Michael Biber, Michal Conrads, Martin Kippenberger, Bjarne Melgaard, Ernesto Neto, Philipp Schwalb, Andreas Slominski, Franz West, Meredyth Wulff and others.

Jan Pleitner, born in Oldenburg in 1984, is a contemporary painter. After studying at the art academy Düsseldorf the artist is living and working in the Region of Ostfriesland in the North of Germany. He describes his psychedelic, abstract painting as "neo-expressionist" or as "scifi-expressionism".His processual and physical pictorial invention creates its own contemporary position somewhere between the waves and impulses of the subconscious and logical concepts of perception. Painting that cannot easily be subordinated to a category and tries in a very idiosyncratic way to open doors for a new consciousness."The Temperatures of Time" is the artist's first publication that provides a retrospective overview of his early work from 2004-2020 with key exhibitions, main works and important stations in his creative work.The book is accompanied by an interview with Hannah Eckstein and texts by Christian Malycha and Declan Long.

For more than twenty years, André Butzer, born 1973, has been one of the most outstanding and internationally influential painters in Germany. Starting with an expressive figuration between cartoon and high culture in his early work, bit by bit he annihilated all superficial motival representation. Since 2010, he converges onto an absolute and non-objective, albeit existential understanding of painting.For the first time, this book gives a coherent survey of André Butzer’s œuvre and shows the insistent consequence from its beginning in 1994 until today’s so-called ''N-Paintings'' by which he questions the elementary relation between painting and our existence.