Western Stylemasters
1991 · Screenprint
composition: 31 1/2 x 19 11/16" (80 x 50 cm); sheet: 45 1/4 x 35 1/2" (115 x 90.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Ger van Elk
Dutch, 1941–2014
Amsterdam, Netherlands
PaintingConceptual ArtPhotography
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None documented
6
Institutional Exhibitions
23
Works in Collection
45
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90%
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- • Conceptual Art
- • Photography
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Contemporary Works from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986
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An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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Prints: Acquisitions 1977�1981
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981–1982
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Bookworks
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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Rooms
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976–1977
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Ger van Elk was a Dutch conceptual and visual artist whose practice spanned photography, drawing, painting, and installation. Active from the 1960s onward, he engaged with perceptual phenomena and the nature of representation itself, often using photography and linguistic elements to interrogate how meaning is constructed. His work frequently employed wordplay, visual puns, and deliberate misreadings of everyday objects and situations. Van Elk's investigations into the relationships between language, image, and perception positioned him within postwar European conceptualism.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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