Flower pots and crosses, fries and diamonds – in his large-format paintings Dieter Krieg (1937–2005) never differentiated between the significant things in life and the everyday ones. In over-sized enlargement, Krieg also uses painterly media to wrest the emotion of experienced life from the banal, leaving room for tragedy and comedy, for bodily pleasure and aesthetic sharpness – even for fries and diamonds.
Beginning in the sixties, the Lindau-native was one of the most prominent representatives of the so-called New Figuration. In 1978, he exhibited with Ullrich Rückriem in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
The book presents the first retrospective of Dieter Krieg’s oeuvre.

Dieter Krieg. Fritten und Brillanten
Edited by Marion Ackermann and Daniel Spanke, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Foreword: Marion Ackermann, Authors: Klaus Gerrit Friese, Simone Schimpf, and Daniel Spanke,
Kerber Verlag, German / English, 2008
230 × 290 mm, 276 pages with 114 coloured and 27 b&w illustrations, hardcover, bound
EUR 39,95 (SFR 67,–)
ISBN 978-3-86678-158-0

Christian Jankowski became known to a wider audience with Telemistica, his humorous contribution to the 1999 Venice Biennale in which he asked fortunetellers on Italian television about his success at the exhibition. »Everyone is placing their hopes,« as DIE ZEIT wrote, »in his wit, in his artful contortions.« Whether hula hooping in the museum, teleshopping at the art fair, or participating in a TV cooking show with Alfred Biolek in the Kunstverein, Jankowski (*1968 in Göttingen) lodges himself with sly humor in popular entertainment programs and the art business to subtly question the role of art and medial entertainment in our society.
The book provides the first representative survey of Jankowski’s oeuvre. His best-known pieces such as the film he produced in Hollywood entitled 16mm Mystery or in a Karaoke bar The Day We Met are presented in addition to his most recent, previously unpublished works including Kunstmarkt TV realized at the 2008 Art Cologne or his video installation Briefing made especially for the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

Ed. by Marion Ackermann, texts: Michael Althen, Ruth Diehl, Francesca Gavin, Wulf Herzogenrath, Sarah Khan, Annika Plank, Simone Schimpf, interview with the artist by Thomas Kaltschmidt
Hantje Cantz Verlag, German/English, 2008
288 pp., 226 ills., 180 in color
23,90 x 31,80 cm, clothbound
€ 39.80, Museum: € 29
ISBN 978-3-7757-2317-6