Claude Wall. 17 plus 1. catalogues raisonnés

In December 2014, the Kunsthalle Göppingen managed to do what would seem to be impossible: it exhibited the complete works of Vincent van Gogh. How could this be? you ask. The insurance policy alone would have bankrupted the city!

At this point, Stuttgart artist Claude Wall comes into play, because in fact it was his exhibition. His images depict imaginary archives in which all pictures of van Gogh can be seen. However, Claude Wall shows them only from the side. Everything is there and, yet, nothing is there at all.

Accordingly, the cover image anticipates the content of the exhibition catalog: paintings, standing on a shelf, whose canvases do not face us – leaving room for our imagination, or perhaps what we already think we know about van Gogh’s paintings. the screens do not look at us and leave room for our imagination, or for what we know about van Gogh’s pictures. A planetary blue gives our imagination further space to roam. The book contains numerous texts on the life, oeuvre and working methods of the artist Claude Wall.