Theater des Überlebens - Martin Disler - die späten Jahre

Martin Disler (1949-1996) was arguably Switzerland's most renownded young artist of the 1980s. Gaining early recognition primarily as a draftsman, he became an internationally celebrated painter after 1980. In the last decade of his relatively short life, which he spent in virtual seclusion, Disler also turned to sculpture. Throughout his entire career, he also wrote poems and literary texts. Self-taught in all disciplines, he constantly struggled in search of his unique visual language and for the major themes that connect his entire manifold oeuvre: love and sex, anger and tenderness, war and violence, illness and death. Regarded as a representative of a wild or neo-expressive style in painting at the peak of his career, Disler always remained an utterly independent loner.
This monograph is the first book to examine the various disciplines in Disler's late work, highlighting the importance of the body and its role in the creative act.

About the author

Carla Burani is an art historian and consultan based in Lugano, Switzerland. 2019–22 she served as director of the Kirchner Museum Davos.
Beat Wismer is an art historian and former director of the Aargauer Kunsthaus in  Aarau, Switzerland, where he staged the first posthumous retrospective of Swiss painter Martin Disler in 2007.

Summary

Ein Künstler des grossen Formats: Martin Dislers bislang wenig beachtete späte Schaffensjahre

Product details

• Assisted by: Carla Burani (Editor), Beat Wismer (Editor), Carla Burani (Foreword)
• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2021
• EAN: 9783858816993
• ISBN: 978-3-85881-699-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 208 mm x 14 mm x 278 mm
• Weight: 536 g
• Illustrations: 90 farbige Abbildungen und 1 s/w-Abbildung
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Moderne Kunst, Kunst, Architektur, Körpersprache, Skulptur, Bewegung, Abstraktion, Zeichnung, Schweiz, Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein, einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien, Malerei und Gemälde, Malerei, Zeitgenössische Kunst, Ausstellungskataloge, Museumskataloge und Sammlungen, Bildhauerei, Bildhauerei und Plastik, Körper, Gestik, Tanz, bildende Kunst, contemporary Art, Ausdruck, Spätwerk, Figuration, auseinandersetzen, Zeichnen und Zeichnungen, Martin Disler, Carla Burani, Kirchner Museum Davos, Beat Wismer, Zeitgenösiche Kunst