Werner Büttner: My Looting Eye - Hardcover

by Andrew Renton (Editor)

While the artist uses collages as the starting point for his paintings, the former are not only preparatory studies but a strategy that enables juxtaposing realities and unexpected associations, which are major characteristics of his extensive oeuvre. In this combination of the everyday and the commonplace, a sceptical perspective becomes manifest as a critical method. With cutting wit, B ttner breaks the spell of daily social events and renders their values relative and benign.

This lavishly-produced book presents newly commissioned texts as well as key essays relating to B ttner's practice, and--taken with its sister volume concerning his painting, Coincidence in Splendour, are the first substantial books on B ttner in English.

Author Biography

The director of significant new London art gallery Marlborough Contemporary, Andrew Renton, is a collector, as well as being Professor of Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London.