{"product_id":"franz-gertsch-polyfocal-flower","title":"Franz Gertsch. Polyfocal Flower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolyfocal Allover\u003c\/em\u003e accompanies the first institutional painting survey of Swiss artist Franz Gertsch (b. 1930, Mörigen) in the United States, at the Swiss Institute in NYC. The exhibition explored Gertsch’s decades-long commitment to capturing life in portraiture, primarily through photorealist paintings and woodcut prints.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on photographs Gertsch took of a group of young friends who had begun living in a commune in Lucerne after 1968, including celebrated artists Luciano Castelli and Urs Luthi, the paintings capture the subjects’ lively presence as social beings in formation, surrounded by a clutter of clothes, makeup and unwashed dinner plates. The extraordinarily rendered details illuminated by the stark light of a camera flash capture an interest in American counterculture, as well as a playfulness with codes of sexuality and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGertsch’s longstanding artistic interest in the mirror as a surface on which a myriad of such identities might be perceived is captured in a small collection of early works. In a number of early paintings, drawings and woodcut prints, including Spiegel (1961), and Mädchen vor dem Spiegel (1960), individuals are seen reflected in looking glasses and contemplating their reflections, pointing to a lifelong interest in capturing the nuances of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lars Müller Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357604094292,"sku":"A8B-28607","price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Scan_20210113_132023.jpg?v=1790812392","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/franz-gertsch-polyfocal-flower","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}