His work is represented in major museum collections around the world.Īs a painter, Philip Taaffe is undoubtedly also a collector. Building on the success of that period, Taaffe continued to develop his distinctive body of work in the privacy of his large studio in New York, which at times resembles a factory and at others is reminiscent of an elegant library. His first solo exhibitions were held in New York in 1982 and Hamburg in 1984 and his early work gained widespread recognition in the context of the appropriation art movement.
Philip Taaffe was born in 1955 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and studied at the Cooper Union in New York. They mingle with life, whence they come they translate into space certain movements of the mind.A room of monotypes on paper relating to individual forms depicted in the paintings has been created especially for the exhibition in Wolfsburg, as has a group of large-scale paintings that bring the show to a spectacular conclusion. "We must never think of forms, in their different states, as simply suspended in some remote, abstract zone, above the earth and above man.
It describes the ways forms make themselves known to us, revealing their meanings while constantly changing with the world around them. The title of this exhibition is inspired by La vie des forms or The Life of Forms in Art, a 1934 publication by French art historian Henri Focillon, one of the most prolific and poetic writers on the subject. Old and new, popular and erudite, anonymous and recognizable, the multifarious forms that populate these works tell stories that have both local and global reach. The artists featured cull their forms from a variety of sources, from newspapers and magazines to high school yearbooks and personal archives. This exhibition meditates on the tensions between figurative and abstract forms in the works of ten contemporary printmakers. Opening Reception: Thursday, May 26, 6-8pm
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