
Sigmar Polke
“ALIBIS: SIGMAR POLKE 1963–2010”
Museum of Modern Art, New York
April 19–August 3
Curated by Kathy Halbreich with Mark Godfrey and Lanka Tattersall
HAS ANY ARTIST OF THE LAST FIFTY YEARS more successfully combined relentless material innovation, slyly subtle wit, and voracious cultural rummaging than Sigmar Polke? From the laconic jokiness of his early Pop compositions to the cacophonous and often mutable surfaces of his later paintingswhere resin, silver nitrate, iodine, chloride, beeswax, granulated meteorite, and pigment of violets, to list only a few of his materials, are deployed to