DAVID ARMSTRONG 'Citgo Station...' After Gerhard Richter Exhibition Poster 2011

Description: DAVID ARMSTRONG (1954 - 2014, American), 'Citgo Station, Rte. 139, Marshfield, MA, 1999', 2011 Out of Focus: After Gerhard Richter (UNSCHARF: nach Gerhard Richter) German Museum Exhibition Poster Beautiful offset lithograph exhibition poster printed in Germany on the occasion of the museum exhibition, UNSCHARF: nach Gerhard Richter, at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, 2011. Dimensions: 33" x 23-1/2" (84 x 60 cm). Excellent condition (never framed or displayed). This exhibition for the first time offers a closer, coherent look at this stylistic principle by presenting the paintings and photographic works by twenty-one artists born after 1960 together with around twenty works and an early experimental film by Gerhard Richter. As a part of the language of their images these artists employ the means of blurring consciously and in different combinations. In this they follow Richter who has given shape to the hazy image surface in many guises. The pictures' contours and surfaces appear dissolved unto a point where the represented subjects are no longer identifiable. This kind of painterly rendition, more often than not taking its cue from photographic sources, pulls into question the representational function of photography that is in most instances still taken for granted. At the same time it raises doubts as to whether a painting in question is a painterly and blurred reproduction of a clear photograph or a precisely painted reproduction of a photograph that is out of focus. Moreover, the tendency to dissolve the seen image by means of extreme enlargement, pixelation or its wiping-out raises questions about the truthful representation of the reality we perceive and about the function of the painted image for our apperception. The degrees of blurring in painting and photography define the border between realism and abstraction (clarity and precision) in the representation of reality. They point to the double function of representation between a naturalist reflection and the autonomy in the employment of artistic devices. David Armstrong was born in Lexington, MA, in 1954. Beginning in 1974, he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where a group of peers, later to be known as the Boston School, included fellow students Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Mark Morrisroe and Jack Pierson. In 1977-78, requisite studio credits were completed at The Cooper Union in NYC, where he'd relocated before the first semester of that year. A traveling fellowship brought him to Paris the following year. His early work comprised formal black and white portraits heavily indebted to a variety of diverse influences from painting as well as photography, most recognizably Nadar, Julia Margaret Cameron, August Sander, Irving Penn and Peter Hujar. His subjects were drawn solely from within the world familiar to him, friends and lovers. Returning to New York in 1980, Armstrong was represented privately by Diego Cortez. His work was featured in the landmark show New York/New Wave that Cortez curated at MoMA PS1 in 1981. In 1985, Armstrong returned to Boston to complete a BFA at Tufts University. During that time he exhibited work with Brett Sikema. He received another grant from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for work done during the prior years in New York, which was designed for alumni of the Museum School. He returned to Manhattan in 1989. Armstrong traveled to Berlin in 1991 to once again join with close friend and collaborator Nan Goldin. In the following three years spent together in Berlin they completed, among other things, the book of images A Double Life, a Scalo edition printed by Gerd Steidl. This included many portraits each had taken, dating back as far as the time they'd attended art school together, 20 years earlier, and as current as the year it was published, 1993. David Armstrong, the photographer who gained prominence exploring the often overlapping worlds of gay men, drug addicts, transvestites, fashion models and artists, died in October 2014 in Los Angeles of liver cancer. He was 60. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY StoreICON ABOVE Pay me securely with any major credit card through PayPal!

Price: 100 USD

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

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