Irmel Droese. Felix Droese
Die Fruchtbarkeit der Polarität

Editor(s)

Wiebke Siever

Author(s)

Anne Rodler

Design

Wiebke Muth

Size

21 x 25 cm

Pages

96

Illustrations

78 color, 3 b/w

Cover

Hardcover

Language(s)

German

ISBN

978-3-947563-94-4

A Tribute to the Artist Couple

Irmel Droese (b. 1943, Landsberg an der Warthe) and Felix Droese (b. 1950, Singen/Hohentwiel) first met in 1970, when both were students in Joseph Beuys’s class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In a decades-long partnership in life and art, they have built oeuvres that, both each for itself and in dialogue with each other, scrutinize a rapidly changing reality. Irmel Droese creates expressive stage characters, sculptural oil paper figures, and depictions of humans on paper, while Felix Droese’s diverse ensembles and large-format papercuts grapple with money, economic questions, and the rising predominance of commercial considerations. His art gained international renown with his participation in documenta 7 in 1982 and the 43rd Biennale di Venezia in 1988. Designed in close collaboration with the artists, the publication documents their separate and joint oeuvres, drawing attention to societal questions.

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