Dimensions: image: 835 x 593 mm
Copyright: © Estate Martin Kippenberger/Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Martin Kippenberger's "Stefan Mattes," made around 1989. It looks like a poster. I’m struck by how ghostly the figure seems, almost fading into the background. What do you see in this piece? Curator: I see Kippenberger using the image of Stefan Mattes to comment on the art world's construction of identity. How does one become visible, recognized, celebrated? The blurring suggests a critique of representation itself. It makes me think about the fleeting nature of fame and the performative aspects of the art market. Do you get that sense too? Editor: I hadn't considered the art market aspect. Now the colours and the ghostliness seem like a commentary on visibility and value. Thanks! Curator: Absolutely! Thinking about art as a product of its environment always opens up new interpretive pathways.
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Though prolific as a painter, sculptor, musician and writer, the 178 posters created by German artist Martin Kippenberger throughout his career form a significant body of work. Normally created as screen prints or lithographs in standard advertisement sizes, they were used to promote a wide variety of events from art exhibitions to upcoming parties. From 1986 Kippenberger began to group his posters into folios, though these were united more by date than by similarity of style or function. This work forms part of the fourth of Kippenberger’s five folios, Courage to Print. Published in 1990 in an edition of twenty-five, each folio contained twenty-eight posters made between 1988 and 1990.
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