A.R. Penck
Jun 01, 2020 - Sep 27, 2020
A.R. Penck (1939-2017) was one of the German artists who, after the Second World War, paved the way for a new artistic mindset. Today he is known above all for his Streichholzm盲nnchen (鈥榤atchstick men鈥�): figures with limbs resembling rakes, generally surrounded by pictograms, numbers and letters. Penck鈥檚 crudely rendered visual idiom reflects his distaste for cultural and political systems, but there is also an inquiring and intuitive aspect to it. His work will be explored in an extraordinary retrospective featuring almost two hundred works, including paintings and drawings that have rarely been shown.
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A.R. Penck (1939-2017) was one of the German artists who, after the Second World War, paved the way for a new artistic mindset. Today he is known above all for his Streichholzm盲nnchen (鈥榤atchstick men鈥�): figures with limbs resembling rakes, generally surrounded by pictograms, numbers and letters. Penck鈥檚 crudely rendered visual idiom reflects his distaste for cultural and political systems, but there is also an inquiring and intuitive aspect to it. His work will be explored in an extraordinary retrospective featuring almost two hundred works, including paintings and drawings that have rarely been shown.
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Stadhouderslaan 41 The Hague, Netherlands 2517 HV
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