KOEN VAN DEN BROEK

In Out of Place, noted LA-based art historian John C. Welchman offers a tour-de-force discussion of the first 25 years of Koen van den Broek''s work. The book is partly chronological, partly attentive to the genres, styles, media and concepts around
which the artist has innovated, from painting to public space. Welchman unpacks a wide spectrum of references and allusions-to Mondrian, Malevich, Matisse, Rothko and many other modernist artists; to postwar photographies; to the art cinemas of the 1
960s and ''70s; and to the history of freeways, interstates and the evolution of the singular urban fabrics of the United States. He offers exciting new accounts of the defining orientation of the first decade of van den Broek''s painting as it enter
ed into pathbreaking pictorial dialogues with borders, shadows and cracks. The second part of the monograph takes up with a frankly surprising range of ideas and issues connected to figures, identities, landscape, ecology, appropriation, opera, and i
nstitutions ... and to the striking material appurtenances of Formula 1 racing.