The Sausage Eater, 1963

Raster Drawing (Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald) 1963

Why Can’t I Stop Smoking? 1964

“The Palm Painting” (1964). Credit Courtesy Estate of Sigmar Polke/Ars, NY/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany; PHOTO: Alistair Overbruck

Girlfriends (Freundinnen) 1965/66

Stripe Painting IV, 1968

Heron Painting II, 1968

Polke as Astronaut (Polke als Astronaut) 1968

‘Moderne Kunst’ (1968) by Polke. (Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn)

Alice in Wonderland (Alice im Wunderland), 1971. Photograph: Estate of Sigmar Polke/DACS, London/VG Bild-Kunst

Mao, 1972

Bowery, New York, 1973

Dr Berlin, 1969-74

Pushing the boundaries: Supermarkets, 1976 / Pic: The Estate of Sigmar Polke

Untitled (Quetta, Pakistan) 1974–1978

Untitled (Dr. Bonn), 1978

‘Negative Value II (Mizar)’ (1982) by Polke. (© 2014 Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn)

Negative Value III, 1982

Watchtower (Hochsitz), 1984. Photograph: Estate of Sigmar Polke/DACS, London/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Watchtower’ (1984). Estate of Sigmar Polke/ ARS/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Police Pig, 1986

Seeing Things as They Are, 1991

Salamander Stone, 1997

Untitled (Rorschach) (Ohne Titel (Rorschach)), c. 1999 Colored ink in bound notebook, 192 pages each: 11 5/8 x 8 1/16? (29.5 x 20.5 cm) Private Collection Photo: Alistair Overbruck

Season’s Hottest Trends, 2003

The Illusionist, 2007. All photographs: The Estate of Sigmar Polke/DACS/VG Bild-Kunst

“Sigmar Polca wz wn v ɖ most inseṣ̌bli xperimntl ātists v ɖ twentịʈ senčri.

Ɖs retṛspctv z ɖ frst t brñ tgɖr ɖ unyžli brwd renj v mīdia h wrct wɖ jrñ hiz fîv-deced c̣rir – nt onli pêntñ, drōñ, ftogṛfi, film n sculpčr, bt olso nôtbcs, slîdpṛjẋnz n fôtocopiz. H wrct in of-ɖ-wōl mtirı̣lz renjñ fṛm mītiordust t gold, bublráp, snêljūs, ptetoz, st n īvn yrenı̣m, ol ɖ ẇl rzistñ īzi caṭġrîzešn.

Polca’s rlentḷsli invntv wrcs renj in sîz fṛm ɖ intiṃsi v a nôtbc t monymntl pêntñz. H tc a wîldli dfṛnt aproč t āt-mcñ, fṛm hiz rsponsz t cnsymrssayti in ɖ 1960z t hiz intrest in travl, drugz n comynl livñ in ɖ 1970z n hiz incrisñli xperimntl practis aftr 1980.

Bnʈ Polca’z irevṛnt wit, pṛmiskys intelijns, n čansóṗrešnz le a dīp sceptisizm v ol oʈoṛti. It wd b impsbl t undrstand ɖs atityd, n ɖ crı̣tivti ɖt gru ât v it, wɖt cnsidrñ Polca’z bîogṛfi n its setñ. In 1945, nir ɖ end v Wrldwor II, hiz famli fled Sîlīža (in preznt-de Pôḷnd) fr ẇt wd sn b Sôvı̣t-okpîd Īst Jrṃni, n ɖen iscept agn, ɖs tîm t West Jrṃni, in 1953.

Polca gru p at a tîm ẇn mni Jrmnz dflctd blem fr ɖ atroṣtiz v ɖ Natsi pirı̣d wɖ ɖ alibî, I dd’nt si enʈñ. In verı̣s wrcs in ɖ xibišn, Polca opozz mni Jrmnz v hiz jeṇrešn’z tendnsi t ignor ɖ Natsi past, az f picñ of ɖ scab t riôpn ɖ wūnd.”

GAḶRI WEBSAIT

ẆT ĐE SE

Mîca Polac, Đ NY YWC OBZRVR, 16 Êpṛl 1974
Ted Lūs, VÔG, 16 Êpṛl 2014
Jeri Swlts, Đ VULČR, 16 Êpṛl 2014
Hoḷnd Cotr, Đ NY YWC TÎMZ, 17 Êpṛl 1974
Lans Esplŭnd, Đ WŌLSTRĪT JRNL, 23 Êpṛl 2014
Pītr Ščeldāl, Đ NY YWCR, 28 Êpṛl 1974
Holi Wiłmz, Đ INDIPNDNT, 21 Septmbr 2014
Êdrịn Srl, Đ GĀDỊN, 6 Octobr 2014
Aḷster Sūc, Đ TEḶGRAF, 7 Octobr 2014
Ben Lūc, Đ LUNDN ĪVNÑSTANDD, 9 Octobr 2014
Edi Francl, TÎM ÂT, 9 Octobr 2014
Eliāni Glêzr, Đ TÎMZ HÎREDYCÊŠN SUPḶMNT, 9 Octobr 2014
Lwṛn Penicot, Đ UPCUMÑ, 13 Octobr 2014

07/04/2015