Rudolf Stingel at Casa Malaparte

This book was published on the occasion of Rudolf Stingel at Casa Malaparte, a one-night-only exhibition in July 2017 at Casa Malaparte, the famous cliffside house built on the Italian island of Capri by Curzio Malaparte (the pseudonym of Kurt Erich Suckert), a provocative writer, editor, and intellectual active in the Italian literary and artistic avant-garde. It features eight abstract oil-and-enamel paintings that Stingel produced in 2017 for the presentation, plus one smaller canvas from 2011, alongside photography of the exhibition installation and the extraordinary venue. The topographical undulations and subtly variegated coloring of Stingel’s paintings echo the sedimentation of the rocky landscape in which the house is set; they also recall his works of the mid-1990s featuring compositions of creased and folded tulle sprayed with silver paint.