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Richard Artschwager
Corner Splat II
- Estimate
- £8,000 - 12,000
Lot Details
Laminate printed in colours, flush-mounted to two uniquely shaped aluminium sheets, to be adjoined at the centre mounted on a wall, in or at a corner.
2009
one part 33 x 35 cm (12 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
one part 26.5 x 29 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
one part 26.5 x 29 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Signed, dated and numbered 6/20 in black felt-tip pen on the reverse, from the edition of unique variants (there were also 5 artist's proofs), published by Schellmann Sprüth Magers Art Production, Berlin.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
"The Corner Splat paintings ironically imitate Formica, an artificial, stale product of industry whose name has become part of American mass-culture vernacular. Suggesting material as well as perspective in a "fake" way, the Corner Splats stand in the tradition of trompe l'oeil paintings. Hybrids of painting, sculpture and furniture, they confuse our concept of the objects surrounding us and carve out real and imaginary spaces which are exceptions to the hegemonic rationality of everyday life in the West."
- Jorg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 13
- Jorg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 13
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