Author(s): Cy Schnabel

CONTEMPORARY ART

This book appears with the exhibition ‘Schnabel and Spain: Anything Can Be a Model for a Painting’, a selection of 23 paintings by the American artist Julian Schnabel from between 1997 and the present. His creations have a distinctive style, moving between abstraction and figuration, characterised by their challenge to the conventional notions of the medium, whether conveyed by the white, painted markings covering his pictures, or as interventions on found materials such as tarps or billboards, in an appropriation of their imagery. The publication focuses in particular on the artist’s relationship with Spain and the evolution of his creative output during the period it covers.