Sillkscreen and Acrylic on canvas. Signed and numbered “10” in the lower right margin. 160 x 130 cm.
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• Large-size piece from the important cycle “Menschen und Tiere nach der Öffnung” (People and Animals after the Opening).
• In this work, Penck tries out technical innovations: reworking silkscreens results in variations on different basic motifs.
• Penck's symbolic pictorial language unfold a striking effect in the reduced color scheme.
• Since 1972, Penck participated in the documenta several times, in 1984 at the Venice Biennale, in 1988 he received a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf.
LITERATURE: A. R. Penck. Menschen und Tiere nach der Öffnung. Übermalungen 1989-91, Galerie Frank Hänel, Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 86f., cat. no. ARP 1014 (illu.). Ketterer Kunst, Munich, Post War I, auction on June 2, 2006, lot 53 (illu.).