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Eric Fischl

Paintings and Drawings 1979-2001

By Fischl, Eric & Tuyl, Gijs Van

Publishers Summary:
Eric Fischl is the first great painter of the U.S. in national decline. His morally ambitious, tragi-comic images reflect the frittering away of American expansiveness, American economic and cultural swagger, American star turns on world stages. After a decade of pace-setting for U.S. visual arts--projecting local projects as universal goods--the U.S. has in Fischl a major artist so homegrown in root and branch as to be practically untranslatable. --Peter Schjeldahl In the 1980s, American painter Eric Fischl mercilessly captured moments in the lives of the American middle classes. Among the painters of his generation, which most notably include David Salle and Julian Schnabel, Fischl is widely recognized as engaging particularly intensely with this typical national theme. As Fischl himself tells it, painting is a process that turns thoughts into feelings, and that uses form and color to create meaning: "...That is always what I am doing now when I paint: making meaning." Fischl's urge to go beyond formal painterly parameters and to allow subjectivity and content onto his canvases links him to younger painters like Luc Tuymans and Elizabeth Peyton, painters credited with a revival of the medium. In the 1990s, Fischl found new impulses and topics: foreign culture, religious rituals, age, and death now take center stage in his compositions. The motifs in his most recent series are based on digitally manipulated photographs of a sparsely furnished room. This catalogue presents an overview of Fischl's work, illustrating approximately 45 paintings and an equal number of drawings, all made between 1979 and 2001. Essays by Carolin Bohlmann, Jörg S. Garbrecht, Annelie Lütgens, Peter Schjeldahl and Victoria von Flemming. Interview by Frederic Tuten.~Preface by Gijs van Tuyl. Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.5 in./136 pgs / 63 color and 30 b & w.

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ISBN

978-3-77571-379-5

Publisher

Hatje Cantz Publishers