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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Sigmar Polke's photo works

I stumbled upon Sigmar Polke's photographs rather indirectly while trying to find some information on another non-painting work I saw at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam this summer. It is a video work called Ohne Titel 1969 a 16mm film of humourus vignettes of the artist playing around with things in his studio and his home. One memorable clip features the artist fanning a photograph of a beautiful actress, high on the wall of his studio, with a broom attached to another stick. Another vignette features the artist sloshing around his bathtub with an assortment of fruits and vegetables bobbing in midst.

Here are some photographs I scanned from a book of his photography, I'm still working on getting some more info on the video.