Messensee: Beyond Contradictions

(Hardback)

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The wish to create more than just an image as a mere reflection, more than just art for its own sake: Jrgen Messensee is an artist with many facets, hence it is not always easy to categorise his oeuvre. This beautifully illustrated book about his recent paintings, drawings and sculptures shows the abstract artist in all his versatility and profundity.

"I have always tried at first instinctively, later consciously to understand the evolving problem of space and spaces, respectively". These are the words of the prize-winning artist Jrgen Messensee (born 1936 in Vienna) who is firmly established within the Austrian contemporary art scene. Questions relating to our existence and to what we think to perceive as our existence are central to his artistic output. This volume includes not only his exploration of time and space but also, his interpretations and meditations on space and spaces. This book is an impressive glimpse at Jrgen Messensees philosophy and way of thinking.

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The Angerlehner Museum in Thalheim, Germany, presents the private art collection of K. R. Heinz J. Angerlehner. Caroline Messensee is a curator and the daughter of Jrgen Messensee.