INDEPENDENT ART FAIR runs from March 9 to 11 at Spring Studios.
HANS-PETER FELDMANN, a pioneer of artistic appropriation, is one of the least-known great living artists in the world. In America, the freight train of art history jumped the track with Warhol’s ironic-sincere, optically hot, conceptually cool, passive-aggressive way of redeploying images. At the same time in postwar Germany, Feldmann was up to something similar—but unlike Warhol, Feldmann, now 77, went full deadpan. He eschewed the staged theatricality and objecthood of painting and didn’t make anything at all. Instead in his work he only re-presents things. Feldmann democratizes everyday authorless images culled from magazines, books, advertising, flea markets, and newspapers, grouped by similarity, strangeness, irony, and deep psychology. He’s made books and installations of sundry found images of crossed…
