Rainer Fetting

Name: Rainer Fetting
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Rainer Fetting explores the impactful art of the acclaimed German painter and sculptor known for his "New Wild Ones" movement of the early 1980s. His expressionist style challenged the dominant trends of Abstract and Conceptual Art in the late 1970s and resonates with today’s discourses on gender, identity, and power. Featuring four decades of his work—including portraits, cityscapes, landscapes, still lifes, and flower paintings—this volume includes rare early studies, pieces from his transatlantic periods in New York and Berlin, and recent creations alongside sculptures. Published to accompany the Miettinen Collection exhibition in Berlin, this book offers a comprehensive look at Fetting’s vibrant and influential oeuvre.
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Format: Hardback

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This publication will appeal to enthusiasts of contemporary art, especially those interested in expressionism, queer theory in art, and post-war German artists. It is suitable for collectors, students, and readers intrigued by the intersections of cultural identity and visual art.

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Rainer Fetting achieved international recognition with the "New Wild Ones" in the early 1980s. With its elements of Expressionist painting, his art, formed in opposition to the conventions of Abstract and Conceptual Art toward the end of the 1970s, is highly topical again today.

Fetting's painting is a significant precursor for the "queer" discourses on gender, identity, the individual, and power that not only shape the works of younger generations in our globalised art world but also current mainstream debates. His "expressive" portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes, as well as the still lifes and flower paintings on which this publication focuses, capture psychosocial energies that are evident in every painterly decision he makes.

Works from four decades are presented here, some of them unpublished, early drawn studies and paintings from the time Fetting was commuting between New York and Berlin the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to recent paintings, works on paper, and sculptures. The illustrated book is published in conjunction with the exhibition in the spaces of the Miettinen Collection in Berlin.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775750875

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 September 2021

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 120 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Norman Rosenthal
Designed by Enver Hadzijaj
Text by Oliver Koerner von Gustorf

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 205.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 1020g

Pages: 176

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Rainer Fetting

About the Author

RAINER FETTING (*1949), studied painting at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, 1972-78. In 1977, he founded the Galerie am Moritzplatz together with Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer, Anne Jud, and Berthold Schepers. From 1983-1994 he lived in New York and Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions have been shown at the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, and Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig. Rainer Fetting lives and works in Berlin and Westerland.