"iz .art" : Vis à Vis / Human vs. Architecture
"... in the many drawn studies on spatial situations, Renaissance architectures play a role. It is a good thing that the young draftsman at first lets himself fall so far back in form and content, because this enormously enriches the spontaneous drawing approach and the execution, in the vis-à-vis of the architectonic (this in symbolic freedom) with the recurring ..." Günter Wirth wrote in the Stuttgarter Zeitung in 1984 about these artworks.
"Vis-à-Vis": Tuscany Cities in Drawings
Buildings, inhabitants, centuries: all face each other, looking at each other. Tuscan-inspired street scenes between Renaissance and Post-Modernism.
VIS A VIS
graphite and color pencil, screen print and acrylic on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384148
private collection Stuttgart / Germany
VIS A VIS
graphite pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24884100
private collection Jungingen / Germany
VIS A VIS / TWO IN SIENA
graphite and color pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384137
private collection Germany
VIS A VIS / SIENA
graphite pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24884101
TUSCANY TOWERS
graphite pencil, oil color and crayon on paper,
1987, 50 x 70 cm
24887078
private collection Stuttgart / Germany
VIS A VIS / MEDICI
graphite pencil and screen print on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384141
Like chess pieces on their chessboard, the Medici heritage can be found throughout this region. To this day, these remains have brought the splendor of their century ... will they outlive future centuries?
VIS A VIS / MASSAGIO
graphite pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384135
private collection Germany
VIS A VIS
graphite pencil and acrylic on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384136
Two different characters discuss their disagreement over a scene in Massagio's mural. The artwork structures have already filled their heads and it seems that their different views also change their environment.
VIS A VIS / DAVID DAVID
graphite pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384102
A city, two "David" (besides thousands of copies). The two are so close together that they could smell each other; – Wouldn't this busy city be in between.
VIS A VIS
graphite and color pencil, screen print and acrylic on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384147
private collection Stuttgart / Germany
VIS A VIS / ON THE SQUARE
screen print, graphite and color pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384142
VIS A VIS
graphite pencil, screen print and acrylic on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384145
private collection Stuttgart / Germany
OLD OR ANTIQUE
tempera, acrylic on paper,
1998, 42 x 30 cm
20698005
private collection Frankfurt / Germany
An elderly visitor walks past antique sculptures in the "Uffizi Gallery" in Florence.
"Vis-à-Vis": Tuscany Cities in Wall Installations
Structured like a classic Italian wall painting, these Vis à Vis wall installations feature gray creatures with monumental heads sitting directly on their massive feet, seemingly moving between space and time.
VIS A VIS 1
graphite and acrylic on paper, ribbon and canvas,
1984, 324 x 480 cm
14384130
installation at "Kunstraum Stuttgart" / Germany, 1984
Iz Maglow in front of VIS A VIS 1
installation during exhibition VIS A VIS
at "Kunstraum Stuttgart" / Germany, 1984
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"... Since they remind of neither Schanz nor Antes, they are perceived as new, as figures full of beautiful restlessness, which is also communicated to the context of the sheets. Finally, one begins to correspond with these very powerfully drawn works ..."wrote Günter Wirth in the year 1984 in the Stuttgarter Zeitung.
VIS A VIS 4
graphite and acrylic on paper, ribbon, mirror and canvas
1984, 250 x 390 cm
14384146
installation at "Sieber Gallery", Stuttgart / Germany (1984)
In 1984, Iz Maglow realized his exhibition project "VIS A VIS" with drawings and installations in two galleries in Stuttgart. Both locations showed – as it were "vis à vis" " works on the theme of the same topic.
STUDY FOR VIS A VIS 4
graphite and color pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24484126
private collection Plochingen / Germany
visitorsisitors:
Having just arrived in a foreign, new world, they look at each other and their surroundings, and – at the same time – they are overseen by the profiles of others. Monitoring and being monitored?
VIS A VIS / VISITORS
graphite pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
20584118
private collection Ellwangen / Germany
VIS A VIS 2
(black-and-white documentation)
graphite pencil and acrylic on paper, ribbon and canvas,
1984, 324 x 480 cm
14384151
installation at "Kunstraum Stuttgart" / Germany
A "city" becomes a museum. Outside becomes inside. Visitors go around collecting and leaving impressions. In the end, they themselves become part of this environment and they create the impressions for other visitors.
VIS A VIS / FRANKFURT MEETS MASSAGIO
graphite pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384119
VIS A VIS / FRANKFURT MEETS MASSAGIO
graphite pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384120
VIS A VIS / M-M
graphite pencil, screen print and acrylic on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384083
private collection Berlin / Germany
In "Classic Meets Post-Modernism", more cephalopods move in expressively drawn Renaissance and Post-Modernist architectures
VIS A VIS / VENTURI
graphite pencil on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384084
VIS A VIS / THREE : ONE
graphite pencil, screen print and acrylic on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384143
VIS A VIS / RIVERSIDE
graphite pencil, screen print and acrylic on paper,
1984, 50 x 70 cm
24384144
Artistically related paintings
Iz Maglow's many travels as well as his life in different places were always a return and energy boost at the same time and inspired his artistic work.
"Places of Remembrance"
They combine paintings, the artist's memories of various places of residence, unforgettable travel impressions or objects that were in some places influential.
BUBENBAD STUTTGART
graphite and acrylic on canvas,
1985, 55 x 97 cm
14385024
private collection Weissach / Germany
SHORT FLIGHT TO KARLSRUHE
graphite and acrylic on canvas,
1985, 92 x 97 cm
14385020
HOUSE WITHOUT SUPERVISION
acrylic on canvas,
1988, 153 x 104 cm
14888014
Only the guard's lonely chair stays behind on the colorful "construct". Each level of this house is quiet now. All actors have left. Silence stays.
A tribute to the Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
NEW YORK GULLIES
graphite, oil crayon und acrylic on cardboard,
1987, 198 x 104 cm
15487146
With his painting "NEW YORK GULLIES", Iz Maglow honors this city, where most of the visitors are more likely to look up, with a very private view "down to earth".
CHAIR – STILL WITHOUT ANY STORY
acrylic on canvas,
1990, 160 x 77 cm
16990102
private collection Bremen / Germany
"CHAIR – STILL WITHOUT ANY STORY" – (OR HISTORY) Well that's not quite true. The CHAIR, which can be seen in this painting, accompanied Iz Maglow both during his time at the Art Academy Stuttgart and during his years in Frankfurt. But so far this chair kept its stories to itself.
PHONE BOX
acrylic on wood and hardboard,
1982, 105 x 95 cm
10582198
private collection Landau / Germany
A FARMER
acrylic on wood and hardboard,
1982, 85 x 67 cm
10582197
America Wall
In a black and white wall installation, which is structured like ancient Italian murals, six panels are embedded. The overall impression is dominated by separating elements, which continue in each individual tableau.
AMERICA WALL
graphite and acrylic on canvas, Karton und Bändern,
1985, 195 x 710 cm
14785038
"... I find especially in his last work here, which he did after his trip to America, that they transport a lot of those unexpected, surprising experiences in America. You can feel the positive shock that this trip has caused him ..." said Prof. K.R.H. Sonderborg about the America Wall on the occasion of the opening of Iz Maglow's solo exhibition at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in 1985.
THAT'S GREAT!
JOHNSON / BURGEE VIS A VIS MASSAGIO
graphite and acrylic on canvas,
1985, 97 x 92 cm
14385016
In one hand a Renaissance building from a mural by Massagio and in the other hand a New York skyscraper by Johnson / Burgee. Balancing with both cultures, this cephalopod faces its jump across the "big pond".
ST.LOUIS
EDDY'S PLAYHOUSE-COMIC
graphite and acrylic on canvas,
1985, 92 x 97 cm
14385016
NEAR SEDONA IN ARIZONA
graphite and acrylic on canvas,
1985, 92 x 97 cm
14385016
S.F.
graphite and acrylic on canvas,
1985, 92 x 97 cm
14385016
ON MY WAY TO L.A.
graphite and acrylic on canvas,
1985, 92 x 97 cm
14385016
WE' RE A YOUNG COUNTRY
graphite and acrylic on canvas,
1985, 92 x 97 cm
14385016
