A.R. Penck

Published to accompany 'Paintings 1974-1990', an exhibition on the late German artist A.R. Penck at White Cube Mason's Yard, London, this monograph spotlights 18 paintings by the artist, and two lesser-known Super 8 films he made in collaboration with director Wolfgang Opitz. Testifying to Penck's assertion that art should be for everyone, the works mobilise the artist's unique concept of Standart (a portmanteau of 'standard' and 'art') and are complemented by an in-depth 3,500-word essay by Hannah Klemm, which illuminates the extent of Penck's work and thinking. At the back-of-book, an in-conversation with Andrea Schlieker, originally published in Artscribe in 1983, has been re-printed to lend insight to the artist in his own vernacular.