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Pavel Feinstein: Les Petits Fours - The Small Format

Hardback

Main Details

Title Pavel Feinstein: Les Petits Fours - The Small Format
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Kay Heymer
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:124
Dimensions(mm): Height 280,Width 240
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1960 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9783777424477
ClassificationsDewey:759.3
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publication Date 5 October 2015
Publication Country Germany

Description

Citrus fruits with empty oyster shells, chicken eggs stamped with best-before dates and unmoving nudes in empty spaces: Inspired by seventeenth-century painting, Pavel Feinstein transposes artistic traditions to the present day, toys with the viewer's perceptions and sometimes even blurs the boundaries between the painter and the model. This publication is dedicated to the still lifes and nudes of an artist born in Moscow with Jewish roots, who emigrated to Germany in 1980 and now works in Berlin. Pavel Feinstein's painting style is unmistakeable. A grey, undefined background underpins a pictorial subject, one or several objects, carefully arranged and sensuously captured. Although his work may inevitably bring to mind the compositions of earlier colleagues, such as Cezanne, Manet or Van Gogh, Feinstein's work is characterised by additional elements: He transposes desirable objects into austere spaces and imbues his ensembles with a mysterious, melancholy air through purposeful composition. In collaboration with Galerie Kiefer this volume presents works of art created by the artist, who decides "what stays and what goes" as he paints, between 2013 and 2015.

Author Biography

Kay Heymer is head of the Modern Art Department at the Museum Kunstpalast Dusseldorf in Germany. Kay Heymer is head of the Modern Art Department at the Museum Kunstpalast Dusseldorf in Germany.