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Susanne Kippenberger. Kippenberger

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The Artist and His Families

SUSANNE KIPPENBERGER

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At the periphery of my vision, as I went from room to room, from the early gray-scale paintings to the installations to the drawings on hotel stationery to the excruciatingly virtuosic self-portraits, a form began to coalesce—a kind of aesthetic and emotional afterimage, hulking and soundless—that disappeared if I looked at it directly. Self-subverting, ironic, and even flippant as many of the individual pieces seemed, the animus behind the body of work was austere and deliberate and (it seemed to me) boundlessly sad. Seen all together, Kippenberger’s work was so human that it hurt to think about. Gifted as he undoubtedly was, his art appeared to have been made in the face of—and, sometimes, directly out of—his weakness and his fallibility, which may explain why it affected me so deeply. Dissembling as it often came across (and occasionally was, most likely), I’d never encountered art that seemed more naked. And I haven’t in the antic decade since.

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