Dieter Roth, 2 bilderbücher (kinderbuch; bilderbuch; gesammelte werke band 1) [2 picture books (children’s book; picture book; collected works part 1)], edition hansjörg mayer, 1976
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“I’m not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.”
—Eddie MartinezNew film in New York Close Up: Greenpoint, Brooklyn-based artist Eddie Martinez discusses the motivation to shift his paintings from Pop-like figurations to pared down abstractions.
WATCH: Eddie Martinez’s Risky Business
IMAGES (except bottom): Eddie Martinez in his studio, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 2012. Production stills from the New York Close Up film, Eddie Martinez’s Risky Business. © Art21, Inc. 2013.
IMAGE (bottom): Eddie Martinez, Matador #7 (Withdrawn), detail, 2013. Installation view at The Journal Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2013. Production still from the New York Close Up film, Eddie Martinez’s Risky Business. © Art21, Inc. 2013.
“The most freeing feeling is when I’m just moving the brush and making those strokes—when I’m completely lost in there. There’s that sense that I can express any kind of movement I want in there.”
—Artist Eddie Martinez on his approach to painting, in a film from the ART21 New York Close Up seriesWATCH: Eddie Martinez Whistles While He Works
IMAGES: Production stills from the ART21 New York Close Up film, Eddie Martinez Whistles While He Works. © ART21, Inc. 2012.
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