Description
Booktitle: Bananensprayer
Subtitle: Thoma Baumgärtel 2008-2018
Paperback
Published: 2019
Pages: 416 with 635 photoillustrations.
Language: German, English
Dimensions: 31 x 24 x 3.5 cm. / 12.2 x 9.4 x 1.4 inch.
Cover contains a cut out banana stencil.
This book is published on the occassion of the exhibition series THOMAS BAUMGÄRTEL 2019/20
Text: Stephan Grünewald, Andrea Brandl , Meinrad Maria Grewenig, Stephan Mann, Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz, Detlef H. Mache, (Bildungs- & KulturInitiative e.V., Witten), Valeri Lalov, Henriette Reker
The banana – a statement, his weapon: it is Thomas Baumgärtel’s commendation for galleries and other art venues. As one of the first street artists in Germany, the Colognebased painter has been using his banana stencil as a universal tool for more than thirty years now. Baumgärtel also manipulates the past by transforming ‘old masters’ or three-dimensional objects with his templates and textual messages. In doing so, he points to painful aspects of contemporary society.
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