Kupke Imagines

von

Otto Pannewitz – Joachim Kupke Imagines
(from the introduction)

….A voraciousness for all things new is deeply rooted in this man … the new of the past or the new of the present: Canaletto, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, and for many years Jan Vermeer van Delft. The list that even includes Banksy, is endless. The painter Kupke, delights in combining the old and the new. His paintings express thinking in images that stretch beyond time and generations in European art, that play with and question our ideas of what are originals and what are copies, that question the aura surrounding art as well as the mundane….

…Monika Houck’s pictures of the artist give sensitive insights into Kupke’s everyday life, into art and making art, into music and music-making, into people in general as well as the special people in his life. These are unique, deep insights into an artist’s existence today. In captivating, multi-facetted, black-and-white photography, un-posed, intimate scenes are interspersed with light-hearted, staged moments. Private meets public. The artist meets his audience. The atmospheric density of Monika Houck’s „Kupke Imagines“, reflects a rich artistic life in brilliant photographs.