Philip Taaffe, Imaginary City, 1996


The artist, who was born in 1955 in New Jersey, is one of the most interesting exponents of modern American painting. He belongs to a group of artists that concentrate on a number of individual aspects of painting, such as colour, ornament and geometrical forms, and are therefore difficult to categorise according to traditional genres that range from abstract to expressionist art. Philip Taaffe has conceived a new cycle of works in which he investigates the rich ornamentation of Viennese Art Nouveau for his exhibition in the Main Hall of the Secession. This series of works consists of large-scale paintings to suit the ample exhibition spaces of the Main Hall of the Secession.


PUBLICATION
The exhibitions "Philip Taaffe" and "Dorothee Golz" will be accompanied by catalogues with com-prehensive pictorial documentation and texts in German and English.

PHILIP TAAFFE 16 pages, 9 colored illustrations, 13 b/w illustrations authors: Brooks Adams, Werner Würtinger Secession 1996, ISBN 3-900803-84-6 ___________________ available in the shop

PHILIP TAAFFE     DOROTHEE GOLZ     SUSANNA MORGENSTERN

EXHIBITION PROGRAM 1996

 
For further information and photographic material please contact:
 
Tamara Schwarzmayr
Secession, Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession
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