Karel Funk

Karel Funk (M Funk .F86 A4 2007)

Karel Funk produces portraits of men shown in head-and-shoulders view, painted in acrylic on wood panels. Dressed in protective outdoor clothing, the subjects are often seen in three-quarter profile or from behind, with their heads bowed or covered with a hood, so that we are rarely allowed to meet the models’ gaze. Each of them is set against a neutral, all-white background, setting off the figure in a vague space that lacks any real depth. His paintings suggest multiple references to art history, in particular to certain Renaissance portraits, but remain firmly rooted in the present.

A 64-page catalogue accompanies the exhibition at the The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. It contains essays by the show’s curator Pierre Landry and by Carter Foster, curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a biobibliography and 21 illustrations.

Three from Skira

 

Alessandro Busci (M Busci .B9425 A4 2007) This is the first monograph on Alessandro Busci, an artist whose full expressive and formal potential has been acknowledged on the Italian art scene; he is unanimously recognised today as one of the most prominent artists of contemporary Italian art.

Alberto Sughi ( M Sughi .S94 A4 2007) The catalogue published for this exhibition brings together more than sixty paintings and covers almost half a century of the artist’s work. 

Zotti. L’epica, il racconto, l’elegia 1956-2006 (M Zotti .Z647 A4 2007) Carmelo Zotti : The Epic, the Tale, the Elegy, 1956-2006 — Fifty Years of Painting.  Organized by Societa per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente, Milan.