Rose Wylie. Flick and Float Cat. Zentrum Paul Klee Bern

» Rose Wylie. Flick and Float« presents the nonconformist and fascinating work of the British artist Rose Wylie. She has won global recognition with her unique artistic practice and wide range of themes. Wylie’ s large-format paintings are a mixture of figurative representation, abstraction and stories in pictures. Expressive, direct and filled with subversive humour, they bear witness to the artist’ s engagement with pop culture, literature, history, and personal experiences. Wylie’ s artistic language is deliberately simple, and recalls the aesthetic of Bad Painting and Post-Pop. With works from the last thirty years, the book provides an insight into the untamed œ uvre of an artist who overcomes conventional boundaries and occupies a unique place in the contemporary art scene. Individual works are also being painted specially for the exhibition in Bern, and shown to the public for the first time, just as Juergen Teller’ s photographs, in their inimitable way, introduce us to the artists’ world in her different way.

Fabienne Eggelhö fer: In 2017 Fabienne Eggelhoefer has been appointed chief curator and head of collection, exhibitions and research at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern. From 2005 to 2017 she was curator for modern and contemporary art at the Zentrum Paul Klee where she realized numerous temporary exhibitions and collection displays. In 2012 she completed a research project on Paul Klee’ s teaching at the Bauhaus that culminated in an online database of Klee’ s teaching notes. In addition, she also analyzed the meaning of nature in Klee’ s teaching in a dissertation leading to a PhD degree. In 2017 Fabienne Eggelhoefer has been appointed chief curator and head of collection, exhibitions and research at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern. From 2005 to 2017 she was curator for modern and contemporary art at the Zentrum Paul Klee where she realized numerous temporary exhibitions and collection displays. In 2012 she completed a research project on Paul Klee’ s teaching at the Bauhaus that culminated in an online database of Klee’ s teaching notes. Rose Wylie (*1934) is a British artist known for her large paintings on unprimed canvas. In 1981 she was graduated with an MA at Royal College of Art. Usually she paint from memory taking the imagery from mass media. 2013 she had an exhibition at Tate Britain in London, before she was elected a Royal Academician. Rose Wylie has work in numerous private an public collections including Tate Britain, the Arts Council Collection, and Hammer Collection. Juergen Teller (*1964) is a German fine-art and fashion photographer. He was awarded the Citibank Prize for Photography in 2003 and received the Special Presentation International Center of Photography Award in 2018. Since the beginning his career in the late 1980s, Teller has blurred the boundaries between his commissioned and personal work in his numerous campaigns, editorials, publications and exhibitions. Teller treats all of his subjects – family members, celebrities, and himself with a uniform style of grit, raw emotion and humour that has become his iconic and recognizable aesthetic.

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