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Anton Henning : masterdote, antisinger.

Title
Anton Henning : masterdote, antisinger.
Author
Henning, Anton, 1964-
Publication
London ; New York : Haunch of Venison, c2010.

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Haunch of Venison (Gallery)
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.); 23 cm.
Summary
MASTERdote / antiSINGER is a major exhibition by German artist Anton Henning at Haunch of Venison, London (May - July 2010). Featuring more than 80 works, including painting and sculpture, furniture and drawing, video, and a site specific stained glass window, the exhibition considers Henning's oeuvre as a series of interrelated riddles, precariously positioned between irony and grandeur. The title of the show is a compelling collage of Richard Wagner's opera about art and creativity, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and 'antidote', the medical term for an agent that counteracts a poison. The work itself, and the enigmatic way it is presented, reveals both the absurdist and traditional vein of the artist's humorous and self-aware art, from the seemingly sober to the dazzling and whimsical. Henning is anti-unconventional in his examination and use of traditional (conventional) art genres from portrait, landscape, nude and still life.
Alternative Title
Masterdote, antisinger
Subject
  • Henning, Anton, 1964-
  • Henning, Anton, 1964- > Exhibitions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781905620500 (pbk.)
  • 1905620500 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2010671636
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library