Johannes Geccelli. Don't beam me up

A hardcover book by Johannes Geccelli titled Don't beam me up, shown against a white background. The cover is a dark, matte brown with a faint, vertical, bluish-purple stripe. The title and author are printed in magenta in the lower-left corner. The book has a bright blue cloth spine with the vertical text ÜBER BILDER. POSTHUME DIALOGE.

A hardcover book by Johannes Geccelli, titled Don't beam me up, is shown at an angle on a white background. The book has a dark, almost black cover with a subtle vertical line, a vibrant blue spine, and all text is printed in a bright magenta font.

An open art book with a dark cover displayed against a white background. The two-page spread features two colorful, abstract op-art style prints of a walking figure. The left image is yellow, orange, and light blue, while the right image shows a figure against a vibrant pattern of black and rainbow-colored diagonal stripes.

A high-angle photograph of an open art book with a dark blue cover on a white surface. The two-page spread displays an abstract piece featuring two vertical rectangles of a grainy, dark teal color. The rectangle on the left page is narrower than the full-bleed one on the right.

An open art book with a dark blue cover, displaying two abstract paintings on a two-page spread. The left page shows a dark painting of three stacked, textured circles in blue and rust. The right page features a minimalist painting of a figure outlined in blue against a black background.

A two-page spread from an art book. The left page features an abstract artwork from 1982, showing several rectangular blocks with vertical, gradient stripes in shades of yellow, orange, and pink on a white grid background. The right page is the book's table of contents in German, titled INHALTSVERZEICHNIS, set in a simple black font on an off-white background.

An open art book displaying a two-page spread. The left page features a reproduction of a hand-drawn diagram with circles, lines, and small color swatches in red, blue, and yellow, along with handwritten German notes. The right page consists of a block of printed German text. The pages are numbered 6 and 7.

A two-page spread from an art book on a white background. On the left, page 26, is a square abstract painting, ROT SCHIEBT, 2002, featuring a textured gradient from a deep purplish-red to a brighter red. On the right, page 27, is a rectangular abstract painting, SCHATTENGRÜN, 2004, showing a textured gradient from dark green to deep blue.

An art book page with a large white margin on the left. On the right is a square, abstract color field painting titled Licht des Tages II, 2005. The work features a central area of muted, grayish-mauve with soft, glowing borders of pale blue on the vertical sides. The page number 31 is at the bottom right.

An art book spread displaying two watercolor paintings side by side. On the left, a vertical painting from 1990 shows a view of rolling green and tan hills through a window frame. On the right, a horizontal painting from 1991 depicts a similar landscape of hills in shades of green and blue, framed by dark trees.

An open book spread displays two small, minimalist watercolor landscape paintings side by side. The left painting, dated 2002, features abstract horizontal bands of gray-blue, green, and orange. The right painting, dated 2008, shows a light green field with a line of dark green trees under a blue sky.

An open book spread on a white background, displaying two horizontal abstract paintings. The painting on the left has a dark, near-black field with a soft reddish-purple curve on the left edge and a vertical band of striated blue on the right. The painting on the right is a diptych with a similar dark field, split in the center by a jagged vertical line of white and magenta, with bands of striated blue on the outer edges.

A reproduction of the 1949 painting, Turner in der Halle. The artwork features two male gymnasts in white leotards within a blue-walled hall with arches. One gymnast stands in the foreground holding a horizontal bar, while a second figure is seen in the background, standing in a patch of light by a window.

A book spread on a white background, displaying two impressionistic self-portraits of a young man from the 1950s. The portrait on the left shows the man with brown hair in a light blue jacket. The portrait on the right shows him wearing a blue beret and a dark jacket.

A two-page spread from an art book. On the left page, number 114, is a painting of a headless, armless plaster sculpture of a female torso kneeling on a wooden floor. The caption reads GIPSTORSO, 1953/54. On the right page, number 115, is a painting of a room corner with a dark table, a wooden chair with a red seat, and a stove. The caption reads ZIMMERECKE, 1955.

A two-page book spread showing two still life paintings from 1958. The painting on the left, titled TUBE UND PINSEL, features a crumpled paint tube and brushes against a vibrant, textured red background. The painting on the right, titled AUF DEM BODEN, shows a pair of dark gloves lying on a muted, grey surface.

Johannes Geccelli. Don't beam me up

Über Bilder. Posthume Dialoge

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Edited by: Eva Meyer-Hermann

Graphic Design: Yvonne Quirmbach

Texts by: Johannes Geccelli, Eva Meyer-Hermann

German

April 2025, 144 Pages, 55 Photos

Quarterbound Hardcover

220mm x 270mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-6018-8

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Don't beam me up is dedicated to the work of the German artist Johannes Geccelli, who was born in Königsberg in 1925 and died in Berlin in 2011. He began creating figurative works in the late 1940s. In the decades that followed, he developed his very own abstraction from this. Above all, the autonomous power of color shaped his work throughout his life. The author Eva Meyer-Hermann examines Geccelli's work in freely invented dialogs and explores its conceptual and sensual dimensions. The richly illustrated, high-quality book combines a narrative approach with in-depth research - an invitation to rediscover Geccelli's painting.

JOHANNES GECCELLI (1925-2011) was a painter, philosopher and educator. Born in Königsberg, the artist studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the late 1940s. From the beginnings of realistic painting, the representational dissolved into an abstract color space in the following decades. From 1965 to 1988, Geccelli taught as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in West Berlin.