Neo Rauch: Dromos
Paintings 1993–2017
Texts by Ralph Keuning, Harald Kunde, Ulf Küster, Norman Rosenthal, and Klaus Werner
Neo Rauch: Dromos, Paintings 1993–2017 is a survey of the painting of Neo Rauch. It begins with his first solo show in 1993 at the renowned Galerie Eigen + Art in Leipzig and traces in detail the developments in his oeuvre up to the present day, using paintings from prominent international collections as examples. Accompanying essays by well-known curators and art historians provide fundamental insights into Rauch’s complex body of work.
When Rauch was a student of Arno Rink at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany was still a divided country. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, when his large, cryptic paintings first debuted in the art world, Rauch became the trailblazer for the New Leipzig School, and its most famous representative, with paintings combining elements of Pop art, comics, and advertising graphics.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Artists: Neo Rauch
Contributors: Ralph Keuning, Harald Kunde, Ulf Küster, Norman Rosenthal, Klaus Werner
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Softcover
Dimensions: 9 x 12 in | 22.9 x 30.5 cm
Pages: 144
Reproductions: 70 color
ISBN: 9783775743815
Retail: $39.95 | £28
Status: Available
Neo Rauch
Neo Rauch’s paintings are characterized by a unique combination of realism and surrealist abstraction. In many of his compositions, human figures engaged in manual labor or indeterminable tasks work against backdrops of mundane architecture, industrial settings, or bizarre and often barren landscapes. These figures, though squarely centered in his paintings, often have the appearance of being part of still lifes devoid of a human presence or collaged elements belonging to different time zones. Scale is frequently arbitrary and non-perspectival, which adds to an overall dreamlike atmosphere; the spatial relationships construct their own imaginary realm.
