Dag Erik Elgin: Mirror Falling from the Wall - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3864422949 ISBN 13: 9783864422942

Publisher: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2019

Synopsis

Original or not Since 1986, in his »Originals« series, Dag Erik Elgin has devoted himself as a re-creating painter to his own admittedly subjective, but not unusual, canon of modern painting. In the series he repeats the selected works, all of them Modernist or Clas-sical Modernist, but without pursuing maximum -authenticity in the copying manner of an art forger. The resulting canvases are at the boundary be-tween complete appropriation and studying replica; in them, Elgin relives as a painter the processes where-by the actual originals arose, as in a reenactment, at the same time using them to generate an intellectual reflection on the sensitive topics of -original and forgery, of genuine and genuinely copied painting. His »Originals« are aesthetically very attrac--t-ive, yet--as forgeries--they would not withstand a critical autopsy in the art market, for their materials and manner of production in no way disguise the fact that they have been created in the present. Yet it is the painting itself, the in-sistence on a personal -product in oil on canvas, that makes the »Original« an original, and this in an age of perfected digital opportunities for appro-pri-ation which would by far outdo any artisanal transfer.

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About the Author:

Uwe Fleckner (b. 1961) is an art historian; since 2004 he is professor at Hamburg University and director of the Warhurg house. He is co-editor of the collected works of Carl Einstein and Aby Warburg. Gabriele Knapstein (b. 1963) is an art-historian, the curator and director of Museum für Gegenwartskunst Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 3864422949
• ISBN 13: 9783864422942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Hansen Tone