Overview

From his precipitous rise in the late '90s and early 2000s, Friedrich Kunath's stock in trade has been making art that beautifully and lyrically combines the experience of the ordinary with the sublime. In the first major monograph devoted to the last 15 years of his work, the reader sees how the artist poignantly yet playfully distill the fundamentals of human emotion – desire, loneliness, and anxiety – creating comically tragic scenes in which human beings try to find their way in the world. Shifting easily between genres and modes of making – from painting to installation and even video - the work always maintains his signature wit and humour, laced with melancholy. Organised thematically rather than chronologically, the artist has considered the ideas that run throughout his oeuvre and offers new insights by gathering works across media though connected conceptually in ten chapters. Dave Hickey, the well-respected critic [and one-time MacArthur Genius Grant recipient] takes on the concept of beauty in relation to Kunath's work. Art historian James Elkins offers a more experimental approach to art history writing in his essay on the artist's installation and video works and their use of appropriation.

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In conjunction with this exhibition, a new major monograph devoted to the last fifteen years of Kunath's work will be released by Rizzoli Electa. Entitled I Don't Worry Anymore, this book offers new insights into the artist's work across media, organised conceptually rather than chronologically in eight chapters. Featuring new writing by four contributors - art historian James Elkins takes an historical approach to Kunath's work, linking him to both recent and older traditions of European painting. --Ocula

In conjunction with this exhibition, a new major monograph devoted to the last fifteen years of Kunath's work will be released by Rizzoli Electa. Entitled I Don't Worry Anymore, this book offers new insights into the artist's work across media, organised conceptually rather than chronologically in eight chapters. Featuring new writing by four contributors - art historian James Elkins takes an historical approach to Kunath's work, linking him to both recent and older traditions of European painting. --Ocula

"""In conjunction with this exhibition, a new major monograph devoted to the last fifteen years of Kunath's work will be released by Rizzoli Electa. Entitled I Don't Worry Anymore, this book offers new insights into the artist's work across media, organised conceptually rather than chronologically in eight chapters. Featuring new writing by four contributors – art historian James Elkins takes an historical approach to Kunath's work, linking him to both recent and older traditions of European painting."" —Ocula "

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Through his five-decade writing career, Dave Hickey has published hundreds of essays and critical writings, and published several books, including one of the most lauded anthologies of contemporary art writing in the last twenty years titled Air Guitar. In 2016, he published 25 Women: Essays on their Art. He maintains an active social media presence, posting frequently on his Facebook and Twitter platforms. James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His most recent book is What Photography Is. He writes on art and non-art images; recent books include Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History (Hong Kong University Press) and Art Critiques: A Guide (New Academia).

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