London, Runkel-Hue-Williams Ltd., Markus Lüpertz, 1 March – 12 April, 1991
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Markus Lüpertz, London, 1991, p. 20
Catalogue Essay
I submit that what makes the German sculpture of the last few decades uniquely important is that it conveys the primitive sense of the body as raw spatial and expressive presence. It tells the story of the body that has survived suffering, both the suffering inherent to life and the suffering society unavoidably inflicts on the individual. It presents a body that holds its own in space, sometimes heroically, sometimes inconspicuously – almost invisibly. Some sculptors – particularly Markus Lüpertz – do this by dealing with various mythological renderings of the body… D. Kuspit, ‘The Body, Vulnerable and Invulnerable: Contemporary German Sculpture’ in Sculpture Magazine, November 1998, vol. 17, no. 9