Martin Assig’s passion are cheesy thriftstore artworks, which he overpaints with his trademark encaustic. Leaving part of the original work visible, he combines mundane romanticism and pastose abstraction to a kind of 21st-century Art brut. Vases, Summits, Humans is another testimony to Martin Assig’s sophisticated and idiosyncratic approach to painting.
Schirmer/Mosel. With a text by Mark Gisbourne. 208 pages, 152 colour illustrations including 118 colour plates. Size: 16,5 x 23 cm, hardcover. English/German edition.