RICHARD PRINCE – IT’S A FREE CONCERT
2014-07-14Prince first gained international acclaim at the end of the 1970s with re-photographed advertisements and pictures from sales catalogs. Aspects of American pop culture and portraits of various social milieus are major motifs that recur in his oeuvre, which comprises paintings, photographs, sculptures, and installations. Among these are such subcultural groups as rockers and their Girlfriends (the title of a famous Prince series).
Some of his most popular paintings are the so-called Jokes and Cartoons, where written and drawn jokes have been transferred to canvas using acrylic paint and screen printing. The Nurses and the De Kooning Paintings series likewise have already become classics of contemporary painting. Even when Prince engages with ostensibly banal subjects such as car hoods, he manages to translate them into an intermediary state that partakes of the trivial as much as of the auratic. His exhibition especially designed for Bregenz will contain some of his famous car works as well as new works produced specially for the occasion.
Exhibition runs through to October 5th, 2014
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Karl-Tizian-Platz
Postbox 45
6900 Bregenz
Austria
