Jürgen Klauke
Galerie Klein
Which is Jürgen Klauke—a performance artist, a photographer, a draftsman, a painter? All of these at once, and in a way both seductive and provocatively subversive. Klauke, born in 1943, is among the leaders of German art today, an artist who not only builds bridges between media but also furthers exchange between the generations of the ’70s and ’80s. At the “Von Hier Aus” (From here out) show in Düsseldorf last fall he presented himself as a performance artist, at once aggressive and severely formalistic. Here he exhibited small, intimate photographs and drawings showing futuristic geometries