Rita Ackermann: Mama

by Gianni Jetzer (Contributor), Harmony Korine, Scott Griffin

Tensions of creation and destruction in the latest paintings from Rita Ackermann, shifting between representation and abstraction Rita Ackermann’s vibrant, large-scale Mama paintings layer drawings with applications and scrapings of impasto and oil stick, expressing complex histories and emotions. The immersive nature of the Mama suite is fully illustrated and expressed in this book, with a critical essay by Gianni Jetzer that explores and contextualizes Rita’s evolution as an artist and the significance of the Mama works, complementing filmmaker Harmony Korine’s fake interview with Ackermann and a tribute to the artist by Scott Griffin. The importance of Ackermann’s drawings in her painting practice is elucidated in a poem by the artist and seen in the book’s robust plate section, which features all of the Mama paintings made to date.

170 pages, Hardcover

Published February 23, 2021

Reviews

[Jan Roald · Rating 5 out of 5]

So glad I bought this beautiful book on Rita Ackerman amazing art work. It has about 53 full page reproductions in full colour. There are some foldout,and also some showing close up,so you can see every brush strokes (they are amazing)
An interview called "Manila Bentley" by Harmony Korine. Also there is a good essay on the Mama painting's by Gianni Jetzer.
The book is puplished by Hauser & Wirth,and as usual by H&W the quality is just fantastic. With a beautiful sewn in binding. Get it while it's still available at a reasonable prize!