Neo Rauch Schifland. Works on Paper

Schilfland is German for marshland, characteristic of the area in which Neo Rauch grew up but also a metaphor for the boggy divide between East and West. He traverses many boundaries in his work: surrealist and realist; comic and serious; dreamlike and journalistic. Rather than condensing his work into one genre or framework, Rauch combines iconographic and visual elements from diverse worlds: comic strips, advertising, film, architecture, design, German culture, art history and history in general. This specially designed volume presents Rauch's drawings, which reflect the archetypal and mythical nature of his work. An interview with the artist and an introductory essay by Wolfgang Büscher provide depth and background to these selected works that hail from every period of Rauch's career. AUTHOR Neo Rauch was born in 1960, in Leipzig, East Germany Wolfgang Büscher writes about art for Die Zeit. He is the recipient of numerous awards for arts-related journalism. ILLUSTRATIONS 300 colour illustrations