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CHRISTOPHER WOOL
Alongside Mike Kelley and Robert Gober, Christopher Wool is the most important representative of Post-Pop Art in the New York art scene. Born in Chicago in 1955, he settled in New York in the 1980s. International exhibition curators and galleries were starting to show interest in his works. At that time, he painted or printed words – often quotations or fragments of quotations – in black paint on aluminium boards primed in white. When he expanded his artistic style and his painting techniques by painting over motifs, this recourse to everyday culture seemed more poetic and reflective than that of proponents of Pop Art. Wool lives and works in New York.
The works in the Brandhorst Collection provide a representative insight into Wool’s creative output since the early 1990s. In addition to pictures featuring quotations it also includes examples of over-painting and the late graffiti drawing style, both on aluminium and on paper, and in intimate as well as large formats.