Expo : Sigmar Polke - Music from an unknown source

St Paul St Gallery : Sigmar Polke (1941-)
40 gouaches with a format of 70 x 100 cm, all dating from the year 1996, are the core of Sigmar Polke's exhibition bearing the name 'Music from an Unknown Source'. These pictures give insight into an artistic oeuvre which has a singular position in the contemporary art scene of today and belongs among the most significant of the German postwar era.

To be quite frank, I found this exhibition a bit boring. If I had to only look at each one individually, I would have found it more interesting. For me it seemed like a study of colour and form and the material (yea, like what I've been doing lol); a lot of painting or non-painting techniques, such as dripping, flowing and just letting go -- allowing to happen. The factors set for this project are obviously the dimensions and materials -- everything took place within the frame, contained in a picture of a certain format (70x100cm). But I was not sure what he wanted to capture, or present; not sure what the work's relation to music was -- perhaps the bright poster-like nature in the gouache medium, perhaps the dotted figures/objects against a happy whimsy background, or just a daily mundane rhyme on a 2D surface... and perhaps therefore from an unknown source.. lol


Sigmar Polke: Inscrutable master of the unexpected
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/polke/
http://wwar.com/masters/p/polke-sigmar.html