- Artist
- Martin Kippenberger 1953–1997
- Part of
- Pop it Out
- Original title
- Casa Anti Magnetica
- Medium
- Screenprint on tracing paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 1210 × 746 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 2005
- Reference
- P79137
Summary
This poster was produced by German artist Kippenberger on the occasion of an exhibition of his work called Anti-Magnetic House at Galerie Sylvana Lorenz in Paris between January and February 1990. From this year onwards Kippenberger worked more frequently with other artists on the production of his posters. The initial sketch for this design was made by his friend the artist Albert Oehlen (born 1954).
Though prolific as a painter, sculptor, musician and writer, the 178 posters created by Kippenberger throughout his career form a significant body of work. Normally created as screen prints or lithographs in standard advertisement sizes, they were used to promote a wide variety of events from art exhibitions to upcoming parties. From 1986 Kippenberger began to group his posters into folios, though these were united more by date than by similarity of style or function. This work forms part of the artist’s fifth and final folio called Pop It Out. Published in 1994 in an edition of seventeen, each folio contained thirty-one posters made between 1990 and 1994.
Kippenberger’s posters belong to the mass of apparently supplementary material produced by the artist throughout his career that parallels his work in painting, sculpture, installation and performance. However, like his books, pamphlets and literary and musical projects, the posters share with his more conventional artworks the desire to undermine the accepted structures of the art world by defying attempts to understand his artistic output as a whole, by blatantly embracing collaboration, and by actively involving himself in the promotion and reception of his work. As the artist Jutta Koether wrote on the occasion of the 2006 Kippenberger exhibition at Tate Modern:
Martin’s posters best represent him and sum up the range of his ability: the humour, the social critique, the clever combination of provocative images and allusions. They were critical and politicised, perfectly expressing his ideas and his personality.
(Jutta Koether in Tate Etc., no.6, Spring 2006, p.36.)
Further reading
Bice Curiger and Guido Magnaguagno, Martin Kippenberger: Die Gesamten Plakate 1977–1997, Cologne 1998, p.141.
Doris Krystof and Jessica Morgan (eds.), Martin Kippenberger, exhibition catalogue, Tate Modern, London 2006.
Ann Goldstein (ed.), Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2008.
Lucy Watling
March 2012
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