Kunsthaus Zurich presents Picture Ballot Encoding Reality, 11 November 2011 – 12 February 2012.

For this year’s Picture Ballot, the members of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft selected ‘Weltbild’ (1961). It is the first work by Ralf Winkler (*1939), better known under the pseudonym A. R. Penck, in which he develops his pictographic idiom. Reminiscent of a cave painting, ‘Weltbild’ presents Penck’s view of relations between East and West Germany during the Cold War. Human beings are reduced to lines; signs and symbols populate the work, enabling him to analyse social phenomena in an apparently scientific fashion. The exhibition opens up a dialogue between Penck’s work and that of other artists who, like him, explore their personal and historical reality in the form of a visually encoded language.

Picture Ballot 2012 runs from 9 November 2012 to 10 February 2013 and, in a festive touch, will have Christmas as its theme.

Picture Ballot is supported by Albers & Co.

A. R. Penck (Ralf Winkler)
Weltbild, 1961
Oil on hardboard, 122 x 160 cm
Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde
© 2011 ProLitteris, Zürich

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