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Michael
Mathias Prechtl is 75 this year. And he is still in Nuremberg directing
his own imaginary world theatre. Prechtl continues to draw new images
from an inexhaustible reservoir, and to capture these on paper with
colour, pen and brush, tempting the observer to enter into dialogue
with them.
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Prechtl
is one of Germany's best-known graphic artists and book illustrators,
and an oeuvre spanning nearly 50 years shows that he always was and
still is a remarkably varied talent. Prechtl is a great lover of history
and literature, a melancholic joker, a man who can play with words and
whose mind has an anarchist streak; he is an artist who never tires
of expressing all of this in his pictures. His critical approach is
based on the principle of doubt. His art may be received with enthusiasm,
it may give rise to laughter, to annoyance or disgust, but never to
indifference.
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Unlike so many artists, Prechtl successfully liberated himself from the "fetters" of art made for the gallery and museum. He has made use of the mass media, with a democratic impetus as his artistic programme. His Utopian Couple - sheep and wolf - is particularly well known. It is a visual parable of the happiness that is contained in the impossible. This exhibition concentrates on Prechtl's pictures on history and literature. They are all highly individual and frequently subversive interpretations of history and stories. The exhibition also presents a less well-known side to Prechtl, his portrait work for television and the New York Times. |
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