Blinky Palermo: The Complete Editions (Museum Ludwig Cologne)

Donation Ulrich Reininghaus

Yilmaz Dziewior, Susanne Küper, Julia Frirdrich, Fred Jahn

Museum Ludwig & Walther König, 2020

€68,00

The Ger­man artist Peter Heis­terkamp (1943–1977), who named him­self af­ter the ma­fio­so Frank “Blinky” Paler­mo, is known for his ob­jects, in­s­tal­la­tions, and above all for the bright col­or fields of his fab­ric and me­t­al pic­tures, which sup­pos­ed­ly di­rect­ly il­lus­trate what they con­cep­tu­al­ly ques­tion: the sen­su­al qual­i­ties of con­tem­po­rary paint­ing. Less well known yet no less clev­er and sti­m­u­lat­ing are works he cre­at­ed in edi­tions: screen prints and off­set prints, litho­graphs, ob­jects, and a tem­plate for paint­ing. Paler­mo made th­ese edi­tions through­out al­most his en­tire ca­reer. They not on­ly re­flect his de­vel­op­ment from the 1960s to his ear­ly death in 1977, but al­so rep­re­sent a de­lib­er­ate ex­pan­sion of his work.

Thanks to a do­na­tion from the Cologne col­lec­tor Ul­rich Rein­ing­haus, since 2018 the Mu­se­um Lud­wig has been the on­ly public in­sti­tu­tion to have a com­plete col­lec­tion of Paler­mo’s edi­tions. The ex­hi­bi­tion ca­t­a­logue doc­u­ments the re­sults: it in­cludes an up­dat­ed ver­sion of the out-of-print ca­t­a­logue rai­son­né Die ge­samte Gra­fik und alle Au­flagenob­jekte 1966 bis 1975, pub­lished in 1983 by the Mu­nich gal­lerist and pub­lish­er Fred Jahn.

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ISBN: 9783960987451

216 pages, illustrated, 24,6 x 17,4 cm, hardcover, German/English