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Grosse, Katharina 1961-

Overview
Works: 41 works in 58 publications in 8 languages and 1,360 library holdings
Roles: Illustrator, Artist, Creator
Classifications: n6888.g7395, 759.3
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5 editions published in in French and Multiple languages and held by 65 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in Italian and held by 62 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in in German and held by 55 libraries worldwide
Katharina Grosse's work is characterized by an anarchic impulse. Since the beginning of the 1990s, she has been working on a pictorial form that disregards fixed boundaries and hierarchies. For the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Grosse has created a new group of works. The title of the show, 'shadowbox', gives rise to multilayered associations: from shadowboxing, to a kind of negative form of the white cube, all the way to the display. Four oversized, concave ellipses face each other leaning against the interior walls of the Kunsthalle. The front sides of the heavy picture mediums made of laminated rigid foam are covered with Grosse's characteristic spray painting. The issue is 'to open up a performative space of thought in which everyone can perceive reality in a different way: without notions of good and evil, without hierarchies and borders.' The 'shadowbox' is an open system. 'Painting, thinking and acting in it means that there is no longer a reality that is more real than potentiality. Reality is thus updated in the possibilities of each individual at all times' (Katharina Grosse). In this way, the audience is included in an aesthetic event in which qualities of experiencing architecture, sculpture and panel painting merge in one object. Hence, imagination and facts, illusion and abstraction, potentialities and realities cease to form opposite principles. It is precisely their coexistence that lends Grosse's artistic work relevance within the larger social frame as well. For it offers perception - and cognition - a horizon of experience that goes beyond fixed ideas and unambiguous categories of mental and social stagnation. Katharina Grosse (born 1961 in Freiburg/Breisgau) lives in Berlin. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Katja Blomberg (Haus am Waldsee, Berlin).
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6 editions published in in German and held by 55 libraries worldwide
Item includes texts about the artist's exhibitions in different locations, including Bern, Düsseldorf, New York, between 1998 and 2001.
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4 editions published in in German and held by 51 libraries worldwide
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14 editions published between and 2009 in German and English and held by 47 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published in in Portuguese and held by 36 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 30 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in German and held by 29 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 27 libraries worldwide
"German artist Katharina Grosse is one of the most exciting and innovative abstract painters working today. Painting with a spray gun, Grosse works in situ, responding to a space's architecture and ambiance by working directly on the walls, floor and ceiling. Having exhibited widely through the United States and Europe, 'Picture Park' is Grosse's first major solo museum project in Australia. The artist has transformed GoMA's long gallery into an extraordinary environment that confounds conventions of museum display and challenges our expectations of painting"--Gallery website.
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2 editions published in in Dutch and held by 10 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in German and held by 8 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in German and held by 5 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in German and held by 3 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
Artist Katharina Grosse talks about the installation work she did in a variety of spaces, and the aesthetic and philosophical interests which led her to start spray painting architectural elements and objects in these pieces. Although the artist also has a studio practice, she only touches on it briefly in this lecture. Questions from the audience at the end of the lecture range from the very specific to more theoretical ones.
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2 editions published in in French and held by 2 libraries worldwide
 
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Alternative Names
Katharina Grosse lived1961
Languages
German (37)
English (27)
Multiple languages (10)
Italian (7)
Portuguese (6)
French (5)
Swedish (5)
Dutch (2)
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