Martin Werthmann

Name: Martin Werthmann
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SKU: 9783777437163
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Martin Werthmann (*1982) is a leading contemporary artist renowned for his innovative work with woodcuts. His large-scale, colourful woodcuts display a unique language of forms, emphasising the vague and diffuse. Recent works draw on photographic material depicting attacks and acts of war, which he layers and transforms into complex, tension-filled pictorial spaces balancing beauty and violence. This volume offers a first comprehensive overview of Werthmann's striking oeuvre, with a focus on his SILENCE series.
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Art enthusiasts, collectors, and those interested in contemporary printmaking and war-themed visual art will find this volume compelling. Suitable for readers intrigued by modern aesthetics and innovative woodcut techniques.

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Martin Werthmann (*1982) is one of the most prominent artists worldwide to make an intensive study of the woodcut as a genre. His monumental colour woodcuts, executed on large widths of paper, enchant with his radically new language of forms and aesthetics, which puts the vague and diffuse at the centre of attention.

Werthmann's more recent works are based on structures and elements from photographs of attacks and acts of war. In numerous superimposed layers, he translates them into the medium of woodcut, creating pictorial spaces full of tension as they hover between beauty and violence. With a particular focus on the SILENCE series, this volume presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of the impressive work of this Berlin-based artist.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777437163

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 July 2021

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: Illustrated throughout

Contributors:

Edited by Marcus Trautner
Contributions by A. Berardini
Contributions by S. Diefenthaler
Contributions by H. Günther
Contributions by N. Rosenthal
Contributions by B. J. Scheuermann
Contributions by M. Trautner

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1220g

Pages: 168

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Marcus Trautner is an art historian, publicist and art dealer in Munich, Germany.