Contemporary paintings, drawings, watercolors — A1232 - The Kasper König Collection - His Private Choice - Part II
Nicole Eisenman is French-born American artist known for her oil paintings and sculptures. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize (2013), and has thrice been included in the Whitney Biennial (1995, 2012, 2019). On September 29, 2015, she won a MacArthur Fellowship award for "restoring the representation of the human form a cultural significance that had waned during the ascendancy of abstraction in the 20th century."
Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist known for his use of fluorescent light as a medium. Flavin's work explored the aesthetic possibilities of industrial materials and the interaction between light, space, and color.
Flavin studied art at Columbia University. He began creating his iconic light installations in the 1960s, using commercial fluorescent tubes of various sizes and colors to create complex arrangements of light and shadow.
Many of Flavin's works were site-specific, designed to respond to the architecture and spatial dynamics of the exhibition space. Some of his most famous installations include "Monument for V. Tatlin" (1969), a tribute to the Russian Constructivist artist Vladimir Tatlin, and "Untitled (Marfa Project)" (1996), a permanent installation of colored fluorescent light in Marfa, Texas.
Flavin's work was recognized with numerous awards and honors, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture. He exhibited his work extensively in the United States and Europe, and his installations continue to be celebrated as seminal examples of minimalist and conceptual art.
Flavin's legacy as a pioneering artist continues to inspire new generations of artists working with light and other non-traditional materials.
Axel Kassebömer was a German artist known for his innovative and multidisciplinary approach to art.
Axel Kassebömer's artistic practice was characterised by a combination of conceptual and visual elements. He often explored the intersection of art, science and technology, incorporating scientific principles and mathematical concepts into his work. His art sought to provoke thoughtful contemplation and challenge traditional notions of perception and reality.
In his paintings, Kassebömer used geometric shapes, intricate patterns and vivid colours. He played with spatial relationships and optical illusions, creating dynamic compositions that invited viewers to engage intellectually and sensorially with works of art.
Axel Kassebömer's interest in photography led him to experiment with capturing movement, time and light. He used long exposures and multiple exposures to create abstract and ethereal images that conveyed a sense of fluidity and transformation.
Tom Otterness is an American sculptor best known as one of America's most prolific public artists. Otterness's works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums around the world, notably in New York City's Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and Life Underground in the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue New York Subway station. He contributed a balloon (a giant upside-down Humpty Dumpty) to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 1994 he was elected as a member of the National Academy Museum.
His style is often described as cartoonish and cheerful, but also political. His sculptures allude to sex, class, money and race. These sculptures depict, among other things, huge pennies, pudgy characters in business suits with moneybag heads, helmeted workers holding giant tools, and an alligator crawling out from under a sewer cover. His aesthetic can be seen as a riff on capitalist realism.
Tom Otterness is an American sculptor best known as one of America's most prolific public artists. Otterness's works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums around the world, notably in New York City's Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and Life Underground in the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue New York Subway station. He contributed a balloon (a giant upside-down Humpty Dumpty) to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 1994 he was elected as a member of the National Academy Museum.
His style is often described as cartoonish and cheerful, but also political. His sculptures allude to sex, class, money and race. These sculptures depict, among other things, huge pennies, pudgy characters in business suits with moneybag heads, helmeted workers holding giant tools, and an alligator crawling out from under a sewer cover. His aesthetic can be seen as a riff on capitalist realism.
