Rainer Fetting

Rainer Fetting achieved international recognition with theôNew Wild Onesö in the early 1980s. With its elements ofExpressionist painting, his art formed in opposition to theconventions of Abstract and Conceptual Art toward theend of the 1970s is highly topical again today. FettingÆspainting is a significant precursor for the ôqueerö discourseson gender, identity, the individual, and power that notonly shape the works of younger generations in our globalizedart world but also current mainstream debates.His ôexpressiveö portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes aswell as the still lifes and flower paintings on which thispublication focuses capture psychosocial energies that areevident in every painterly decision he makes. Works fromfour decades are presented here, some of them unpublished,early drawn studies and paintings from the timeFetting was commuting between New York and Berlin the1980s and 1990s in addition to recent paintings, works onpaper, and sculptures. The illustrated book is published inconjunction wi