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ZKM | Karlsruhe

Paul Thek

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Paul Thek

ZKM | Karlsruhe

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ZKM | Karlsruhe

Paul Thek

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Paul ThekDer amerikanische Künstler Paul Thek (1933-1988) genießt unter den zeitgenössischen Künstlern Kultstatus – durch sein spannungsreiches Œuvre, in dem er Themen und Symbole aus Religion, Kunst, Theater und Literatur aufgreift, nimmt sein Werk bis heute bedeutenden Einfluss auf die Gegenwartskunst. Zeichnung, Malerei, Skulptur, Installation und raumgreifende Environments gehören gleichermaßen zu Theks Ausdrucksmitteln. Seine Kunstwerke zeigen sich mystisch, religiös und kritisch sozialen Ungerechtigkeiten wie auch der Kunstwelt gegenüber, wobei er mitunter widersprüchlich zwischen nomadieserendem Hippietum und verklärendem Charismatiker pendelt, aber auch nicht selten eine Portion Melancholie und Humor in seine Werke mit hinein spielt. Bekannt wurde Paul Thek mit der Serie Technological Reliquaries (Technologische Reliquienschreine) – Plexiglaskästen mit realistisch anmutenden Fleischstücken aus Wachs, die er zum ersten Mal 1964 in New York ausstellte. Mit Hilfe der Kontraste von Material und Inhalt bewegt sich Thek mit diesen Objekten - wie auch mit der legendären Installation Tomb (1967) - gleichzeitig zwischen dem scheinbar Realem und dem offensichtlich Artifiziellem. Kuratiert von Roland Groenenboom, freier Kurator, Gregor Jansen, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst und Harald Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, unter besonderer Beteiligung von Axel Heil und Margrit Brehm. ///Paul Thek (1933–1988) is considered an artist with cult status. The hitherto most comprehensive retrospective of his oeuvre focused on the phenomenal effect of his work on contemporary art and established Thek's historical significance, from legendary outsider to the founder and center of an art movement. It has been possible to bring together more than 300 of Thek’s works, which are largely in private ownership and therefore only seldom publicly shown. In their anti-heroic diversity and multimediality, and with their references to art, literature, and religion, his works (painting, photography, video, sculpture, and extensive environments) are among the central sources for the revolt and eruption of art in the 1960s. It is mainly for this reason that one of the early theoretical masterpieces of this epoch, Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation (1962), was dedicated to him. The mold castings, also those of his own body parts, wax replicas of human tissue, hair, teeth, and bones in Plexiglas cases, which he produced between 1964 and 1967 as Technological Reliquaries, in their mixture of desire and repulsion, decay and pathos, held up the truth of the body to the world of commodities and the transfiguration of the everyday, as well as the idealization and dramatization of corporative minimal art. Curated by Roland Groenenboom, freelance curator and Thek expert, Gregor Jansen, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art and Harald Falckenberg, Hamburg, with the assistance of Axel Heil and Margrit Brehm.

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Created by
ZKM | Karlsruhe
Podcast Status
Idle
Started
Feb 23rd, 2011
Latest Episode
Feb 28th, 2011
Release Period
Weekly
Episodes
2
Avg. Episode Length
5 minutes
Language
English

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