Hamburger Bahnhof<\/a> is exhibiting 300 of his works with the motive that it would have been his 60th birthday, unveiling the plastic universe that Kippenberger created in his brief two decades of magnificence. From the formal point of view, the exhibition isn\u2019t configured by moments in his biography, so much as it is articulated around subjects. A free journey that ventures through the micro-cosmos of an extravagant and ingenious artist with a certain touch of the nihilistic and anarchistic. Some perceive social criticism in his work, others none. <\/p>\nKippenberger still continues to divide public opinion 16 years after his death: the German newspaper \u201cTagespiegel\u201d criticises that this exhibition comes late to Berlin and without any truly exhaustive, prior preparation. It reproaches the lack of depth, analysis, connections, catalogue and the absence of key works, maybe due to the fact that the majority of his works pertain to private collectors; \u201cmuch more was expected of a museum\u201d, they proclaimed. \u201cDie Zeit\u201d on its part, crowned him as the king of \u201ctrash\u201d culture that he always wanted to be, calling into question whether he was an exceptional artist, given that without a doubt he wasn\u2019t the first to undermine the clich\u00e9 of the artist-genius.<\/p>\n
In the \u2018not retrospective\u2019 exhibition one finds amongst others \u201cParis Bar\u201d (a large format canvas in which appears the original painting, hanging on the back wall of the emblematic bar, that he also painted \u2013the painting within the painting -); the crucified frogs (mixed media self-portrait-sculpture that caused the indignation of the pope, transmitted in a papal missive), without ignoring his winks at Beuys. In the posters exhibited, one often recognises self-references, in the designs of which Kippenberger used personal symbols and iconography. <\/p>\n
As well as biographical material, examples of the magazine \u201csehr gut \u2013 very good\u201d are exhibited, of which he was the author and which lends its name to the exhibition. The publication that ended up being more than one hundred examples, arose out of the eleven famous \u201csehr gute Bilder\u201d, made on white canvas with infantile calligraphy of the same colour extracted from the evaluations that a nine year old child made of his work. Another of the walls is occupied by the series \u201cUno di voi, un tudesco in Firenze\u201d, painted during his stay in Florence based on photographs and postcards, presented in Berlin in his first solo exhibition in 1977. In a corner we bump into the life sized sculpture \u201cMartin, ab in die Ecke und sch\u00e4m Dich\u201d (Martin, in the corner, you should be ashamed,) (1989) created in response to an article published in a German art magazine in which he was accused of being a cynical drunk with reproachable politics. <\/p>\n
The drawings on business paper or a never-ending pile of restaurant bills, signs of an itinerant life, pertain to \u201cHeavy M\u00e4dels\u201d. There are 52 sheets from the Hotel Chelsea in K\u00f6ln, the Caf\u00e9 Central of which Kippenberger regularly attended, as it wasn\u2019t far from his studio. In 1989 for the fifth anniversary of the caf\u00e9, he painted on the mirrors of the caf\u00e9 portraits of Louise de Fun\u00e9s, a French actor pigeonholed into perpetual loser roles. Some of these mirrors also form part of the exhibition. <\/p>\n
His work is a reflection of his life: integrating underground culture, pop, punk and social realism through purely banal aspects charged with sincere \u2013sometimes even pathetic- irony. Dandy, bad boy, showman, a joker figure, transgressor and verbal communicator to its ultimate consequences. Martin Kippenberger was nothing if not an exhibitionist, whose career was marked by excess, eccentricity and experimentation. He openly admitted his \u2018condition\u2019 of alcoholic, mocking himself at the same time as the actual condition? <\/p>\n
A prolific and irreverent artist, a cynical lover of controversy and confrontation, Martin Kippenberger is encompassed in the current of German Neo-expressionism as part of the Neue Wilde (New salvajes), along with Georg Herold, the Oehlen brothers and G\u00fcnter F\u00f6rg. The bad boys of German Neo-expressionism were united by rebelliousness, provocation and creative freedom, qualities that brought little or nothing new to the future of art. However, Kippenberger made an effort to refine his persona, dismantling the myth of the artist. More than your average anti-hero, Kippenberger was above all a super-antihero, an aspect where he undoubtedly did innovate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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