Re-View Onnasch

By Paul Schimmel and Reinhard Onasch

A splendid show. A list of artists that brings together names like Bell, Brecht, Buren, Christo, Copley, Darboven, di Suvero, Dine, Flavin, Hamilton, Kienholz, Kline, Louis, Motherwell, Noland, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Reinhardt, Rivers, Roth, Segal, Serra, Stella, Still, Tuttle, Twombly, Weiner, Wesley or Westermann is not merely intended as an international who's who. The collection of Reinhard Onnasch, who was born in 1939 and worked as a gallerist initially in Berlin from 1969 to 1971, then from 1971 to 1974 in Cologne and from 1973 to 1975 in New York, subsequently returning to Berlin from 1982 to 1987, demonstrates an astounding art and culture transfer between America and Europe. This book published in conjunction with the exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth in London in the fall of 2013 and in New York in early 2014, Re-View: Onnasch Collection is the first in-depth study of Reinhard Onnasch's activities as a gallerist, art dealer, catalogue publisher and art collector. Its chronology presents a wealth of previously unpublished documents and photographs, and includes, for the first time in English translations, several interviews with Onnasch. From these conversations one gains a sense of the passion with which he has built up his remarkable collection. Paul Schimmel, curator of the exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London notes: It is an extraordinarily varied collection, very fruitful thanks to its strong commitment to both American and European art. It ?demonstrates a uniquely open and informed attitude towards collecting and an extraordinarily rare, breathtaking view oriented both towards and against the mainstream.« So alongside works that could be considered exemplary of Pop art or Minimalism, it also features important works of color-field painting, Fluxus, assemblage and Abstract Expressionism, which the publication illustrates with new photographs in honor of the occasion. The works reproduced in the catalogue represent a veritable vanguard of the twentieth century's most important art movements.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 386442075X
• ISBN13: 9783864420757
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.1" x 11.6"