Blinky Palermo - Palermo - 1989

Blinky Palermo (1943-1977) - Text English/German : Frans Dalhem a.o.
Published by Delano Greenidge Editions New York 1989 .
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160 pages of text including a list of exhibitions and a bibliography. Hardcover with dustjacket in almost new condition.
. Contains 127 illustrations, of which 106 are in color. The text is in English and German. The text is clean and unmarked .

Condition : Book as New/New - Dustjacket véry good.
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You should know about Blinky Palermo. By the time he died, suddenly, at the age of thirty-three, in 1977, the quicksilver German artist, who was born Peter Schwarze, brought up as Peter Heisterkamp, and took on a crook’s sobriquet, had achieved a body of work furiously intelligent and beautiful. His suites of abstract paintings on aluminum panels and what might be called his paintings by other means, such as swaths of one-color commercial fabric mounted on stretchers, updated the aesthetics of modern idealists, from Kazimir Malevich to Barnett Newman, for an age of skeptical irony. In Germany, Palermo ranks not far below his majestic contemporaries, and friends, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. He remains too little recognized in America, where few of his works reside. Two perfect summer shows—bright, cool, bracing—help matters, though in out-of-the-way places. They are halves of a retrospective that began in Los Angeles and Washington and completes its tour at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and at Dia:Beacon, forty-some miles south. The Bard segment represents most phases of Palermo’s career. Late works and the artist’s magnum opus, “To the People of New York City” (1976)—a fifteen-part sequence of forty aluminum panels painted the German-flag colors of red, yellow, and black—grace the vast, skylighted spaces of Dia:Beacon. The retrospective was organized by Lynne Cooke, a former curator at Dia, which has long championed Palermo, among other key avant-gardists of the sixties and seventies.