TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farquharson,Alex
AU  - Genzken,Isa
AU  - Diederichsen,Diedrich
AU  - Breitwieser,Sabine
TI  - Isa Genzken
T2  - Contemporary artists
SN  - 071484425X
AV  - N6888.G46 F37 2006
U1  - 709.2 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London, New York, NY
PB  - Phaidon
KW  - Genzken, Isa,
KW  - Artists
KW  - Germany
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Art, German
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157); Also issued online
N2  - "Isa Genzken's work encompasses sculpture, collage, painting and photography. One of the leading artists to have emerged in Germany since the 1980s, Genzken is notable for the way she combines personal elements with references to architecture, modernism and art history. She is interested in the ruins of material culture, particularly architectural detritus, and the combination of materials in her work is remarkable, encompassing animal heads, fluorescent plastic, spray-painted pine cones, concrete blocks, glass, mirrored sheets, aeroplane windows and children's umbrellas, to name a few. Her work can be aesthetically brutal, as with her Empire/Vampire series (2003-5) - agglomerations of toys and unrelated found objects roughly splattered with paint - and strikingly beautiful, as with her New Buildings for Berlin (2001-4) - small, impeccable crafted glass and silicone skyscrapers. One of her best known and loved works, Rose (1993/7), is a public sculpture of a single long-stemmed rose made from enamelled stainless steel that towers eight metres above Leipzig's museum district Genzken has been exhibiting since the 1970s, and her work has appeared in many of the world's highest-profile exhibitions, including Documenta (1982, 1992 and 2002), the Venice Biennale (1982, 1993 and 2003), Skulptur Projekte in Munster (1987 and 1997) and the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh (2005)."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -