http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/features/sigmar-polke
German Painter Sigmar Polke, one of the forerunners of the postmodernism art movement, had a show earlier this year at the Michael Warner Gallery in New York. The works exhibited successfully deviate from the paintings from the 1970's and 1980's. The newer pieces still show his signature layering imagery but the "quintessential, playful Postmodernist," as how Taylor describes the artist, seems to slowly dissapear, for the random juxtaposed images of his earlier days are hard to look for in the narrative-oriented paintings of today.
Through the vertical orientation of corrugations, Polke's new works convey a "chilling dimensionality" that invests much in the optics and the subjectivities of vision. He is no longer trying to make magic by juxtaposition in his painting but rather is putting unavailable alternative realities at the forefront of his works by producing multiple viewpoints and portraying events that occur in the same location but at different times. This new collection shows that Polke is not a cynical collagist but rather one who makes "beautiful and funny" paintings.
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