A.R.A.R. PenckWhite Cube Mason’s Yard2022Paintings 1974199018Wolfgang Opitz8m2

StandartStandardArt Hannah Klemm3,5001983ArtscribeAndrea Schlieker

=Carlos Romo-MelgarJohn Philip Sage2

Published to accompany Paintings 19741990, an exhibition on the late German artist A.R. Penck at White Cube Masons 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 Pencks assertion that art should be for everyone, the works mobilise the artists 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 Pencks 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.

Contributors: Hannah Klemm completed her PhD thesis on A.R. Penck and is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri. Andrea Schlieker is Director of Exhibitions and Displays, Tate Modern, London.

The publication is designed by Carlos Romo-Melgar and John Philip Sage and features paintings with full-bleed details in vivid colour, as well as two text sections printed in duo-tone. Inspired by Pencks tenacity and pursuit of art outside the academy, the publication is Swiss bound and opens to reveal a portrait of the artist on the inner cover, as well as a quote running along an exposed thread spine.