Christopher Wool
Christopher Wool (* 1955 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American painter and printmaker .
life and work
Wool was born the son of a professor of microbiology. His mother was a psychiatrist. He grew up in Chicago (he often gives this city as his place of birth) and moved to New York in the 1980s . He initially belonged to an artist group in SoHo that was formed around Jeff Koons , Haim Steinbach and Robert Gober . For his first ornamental paintings, created in the mid-1980s, he used color printing rollers such as those used to produce decorative wallpaper patterns.
Galleries and museums have been aware of his large-format word paintings since 1988 : white-grounded aluminum panels on which he painted, sprayed or in black paint fragments of words ( Riot , run dog run , Sell the House, Sell the Car, Sell the Kids ) and quotations the pochoir technique ( stencil ) applied. In his current work, he spontaneously draws linear shapes with a spray gun on the painting surface, which he wipes out again in a multi-layer process with a cloth soaked in solvent: “[...] This creates a new image in which clear lines are wiped against each other Have to assert areas. "
Wool was represented at documenta IX in Kassel in 1992 and at the 1989 Whitney Biennial . He lives and works in New York and is married to the German painter Charline von Heyl .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1988: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Bi-national: American Art of the Late 80s ; Municipal Art Hall, Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle Bremen
- 1989: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , Christopher Wool: New Work ; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Horn of Plenty
- 1991: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Bern; Cologne Art Association
- 1995: New gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz and Kunsthaus Graz , Pittura Immedia
- 1998: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh; Kunsthalle Basel ; Museum of Modern Art , New York, Elements of Natural
- 2000: State Gallery of Modern Art in the Haus der Kunst , Munich, Food for the Mind: The Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection
- 2006: Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia; Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
- 2009: Museum Ludwig , Cologne, Porto - Cologne
- 2013: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York
- 2014: Christopher Wool. , The Art Institute of Chicago .
Awards (selection)
On December 14, 2018, he designed the entire edition of the daily newspaper Die Welt .
Web links
- Literature by and about Christopher Wool in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christopher Wool website
- Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): Christopher Wool, ISBN 978-3-8228-0851-1
- Eloquent Obstacles , Frieze-Magazin, issue 111, Nov. - Dec. 2007
- Works in the Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Christopher Wool on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to their own information: Place of birth Boston (Frieze-Magazin) ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Press release from Museum Ludwig , Cologne, on the exhibition from April 21, 2009 to July 12, 2009
- ↑ Notice on the exhibition , accessed on August 20, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wool, Christopher |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts , USA |