The paintings of Magnus Plessen are impressive For their distinct compositional technique and their reduced visual language. This book presents his complete oeuvre to date, and thus the development and achievement of-an entirely self-taught painter. Unencumbered by academic constraints,Magnus Plessen - who had previously worked as a film-maker and photographer - began painting in 1999, originally interested in a thorough analysis and deliberate displacement of-the relationship between painting and photography. In the decade since then the appearance and philosophical basis of Plessen's work has changed several times, most obviously in 2006, when he began to create images purely From the imagination, without recourse to photographs. ...

100 Bilder, ein Buch

100 Paintings, one Book

Uta Grosenick und  and Daniel Marzona

Streiflichter auf Magnus Plessen

A Glance at Magnus Plessen

Rainer Fuchs

Eine andere Art der Wahrnehmung

A Different Kind of Perception

Eva Meyer-Hermann

Tafeln  Plates

Der Sprung, die Leiter und das Klebeband

Zur Malerei von Magnus Plessen

The Jump, the Ladder and the Adhesive Tape

On the Paintings of Magnus Plessen

Ein Gespraich zwischen  A conversation between

Hans Martin Hennig und  and Magnus Plessen

Malerei ]999-2009 100 Bilder  Painting 1999-2009 1oo Works

Werkliste  List of Works

Biographie  Biography

Bibliographie  Bibliography