Gast Michels, 1954-2013 / curators, Lis Hausemer, Ruud Priem, Paul Bertemes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hausemer, Lis, organizer.

Priem, Ruud, organizer.

Bertemes, Paul, organizer.

Michels, Gast, 1954-2013.

Musée d'histoire et d'art (Luxembourg), host institution, issuing body.

Cercle Cité (Luxembourg City, Luxembourg), host institution, issuing body.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Michels, Gast, 1954-2013--Exhibitions.

Michels, Gast.

Physical Description:

110 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Subtitle from cover: Movement in colour, form and symbols

Place of Publication:

Luxembourg : Musée national d'histoire et d'art (MNHA) : Cercle Cité, [2022]

Language Note:

Text in English and French.

Summary:

The Luxembourgish artist Gast Michels (1954-2013) was a remarkably keen observer of his environment. He meticulously analysed and decoded his surroundings, translating them into his own formal universe. Michels' oeuvre has a unique formal language and features recurring symbols like wheels or arrows and a luminous colour palette, often dominated by the complementary colours blue and yellow. hile the early work of the Echternach-born artist predominantly deals with seemingly mythical depictions of human figures in woodland settings, his later works have a more graphic pictorial language featuring highly stylised objects and signs. As a painter, sculptor and graphic artist, Michels worked in various mediums but always remained true to his expressive, symbolic and at times humorous and ironic visual language.

Notes:

Chiefly illustrated.

This book was published on the occasion of the Exhibition "Gast Michels (1954-2013): Movement in colour, form and symbols", 7 October 2022-26 March 2023 at the MNHA, Luxembourg; 7 October 2022-22 January 2023 at the Cercle Cité, Luxembourg.

ISBN:

9782879857732

2879857732

OCLC:

1414198522