Issued in connection with an exhibition held October 31, 2010-January 16, 2011, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 24-May 15, 2011, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and June 25-October 31, 2011, Dia:Beacon, New York, and CCS Bard, New York.
Editors: Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly, and Barbara Schröder.
Contents:
Palermo's porosity / Lynne Cooke -- Palermo triangles / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- "Mathematics for 'catastrophes'" : Blinky Palermo in America / Suzanne Hudson -- About space and time : Blinky Palermo's wall drawings and paintings / Susanne Küper -- Unfolding : Palermo on paper / James Lawrence
Summary:
The first retrospective in the U.S. to feature German artist Blinky Palermo (1943-1977) includes more than 60 works, most of which have never before been shown in North America. This beautifully illustrated volume spans the breadth of Palermo's brief but significant career and explores each phase, beginning with objects and paintings created shortly after he graduated from Joseph Beuys's class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the early 1960s and culminating with paintings he produced during his last years in both Germany and New York City. Palermo's oeuvre is customarily divided into four principal groupings: the Objects; the Cloth Pictures (Stoffbilder), the in situ Wall Paintings and Drawings, and the late Metal Pictures, including the epic To the People of New York City (1976), now in the collection of Dia Art Foundation. Blinky Palermo also addresses the artist's works on paper, including watercolors, sketches, preparatory studies, and prints that he made throughout his career.
