Magnus Plessen

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Magnus Plessen (* 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin .

Life

Magnus Plessen worked as a photographer and cameraman, and as a painter since the 2000s.

Since 2014 he has been working on the 1914 series , which deals with happiness and impermanence based on the disabled of the First World War . The starting point is the book War in War by the German pacifist Ernst Friedrich from 1924. Since April 2019, the artist has been teaching a class at the Karlsruhe Art Academy .

Design language

Plessen's works “oscillate between figuration and abstraction and are characterized by their very own formal language”. His paintings combine free-floating body fragments such as heads, arms, legs and hands with everyday objects. The early pictures from the 1914 series attempted to undermine traditional forms of representation; the new works "sharpen this approach further in the dissolution of the figure-ground relationship". "The painting surface and the forms appearing on it fall radically into one - duplicated faces, limbs, everyday objects do not find a specially designated and spatially defined place on the picture surfaces, but rather appear as if they were inlaid like inlays in the picture carrier".

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014 The Rose Art Museum, Boston, USA
  • 2012 Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
  • 2012 Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, USA
  • 2004 Center Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 2002 K21 Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2002 PS1, New York, USA
  • 2001 New Art Museum Lucerne, Switzerland

Monographs

  • Grosenick, Uta and Marzona, Daniel (eds.): Magnus Plessen, The eyes in the hand . DuMont Buchverlag, 2009
  • Siegel, Katy: Magnus Plessen: Riding the Image . White Cube, London

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magnus Plessen: Magnus Plessen: 1914. (PDF) In: Website Daniel Marona. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
  2. ^ List of professors at the Karlsruhe Art Academy. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Magnus Plessen - biography and offers - buy and sell. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ http://www.danielmarzona.com/wp-content/uploads/magnus_plessen-whitecube_catalogue_essay.pdf
  5. ↑ Grosenick, Uta., Marzona, Daniel., Fuchs, Rainer, 1959-: Magnus Plessen, eyes in hand: Painting 1999–2009: 100 pictures . Dumont, Cologne 2009, ISBN 3-8321-9171-2 .
  6. ^ Siegel, Katy., Luard, Honey., White Cube (Gallery): Magnus Plessen: riding the image . White Cube, London 2012, ISBN 1-906072-66-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Plessen, Magnus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg