East of Dirty

Sigmar Polke

Alibis

MOMA NYC

April 19 - August 3, 2014

First comprehensive retrospective of this artist who died in 2010. His work feels fresh now, even though some of it is a half century old. His style has influenced everyone from the abstract expressionists, graffiti stencil art, Damien Hirst, Xerox art, almost a complete run of what’s out there today. He was very prolific and created art in every possible medium from video, painting, sculpture and performance art, to other experimental ways of creating art making.

His art was very much of the times it was created in. If it was the 60’s and counterculture ways of living were in, he was there experimenting with the best of them. He was always trying to push the envelope of art making and art creating. Check this out.