Neo Rauch: Para

by Werner Spies, Gary Tinterow, Elke Hannemann

Neo Rauch combines real, narrated and dreamt elements in his paintings, populating them with figures that are connected to each other spatially, but which remain remote in their relationships, and weaving the whole into an uneasy portrait of contemporary society. Para presents works created expressly for Rauch's 2007 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, alongside various writings exploring the reception of Rauch's paintings, plus an overview of his works from the last ten years.

Genres: Art

116 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2007

Reviews

[Anthony Riggs]

Mostly pictures. includes a few essays and selected reviews of Rauch's work. His work is disquieting, dreamlike (nightmarish), distopian (post colonial), conservative/liberal, edgy, weird indescribable, mysterious... etc.

[William West]

I like Rauch's work alot. He's probably the most celebrated of a young generation of expressionistic, semi-narrative painters from the former East Germany. Creepy, powerful stuff.