Matthias Weischer - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Private collection, NewYork

  • Catalogue Essay

    On closer inspection, the spatiality of the interiors Weischer creates by staggering and layering planes seems highly construed. His views or formsare reminiscent of installations. While interior painting increasingly distanced itself from strict representation over the past centuries and painting became freer, in the medium of the installation there has been a striving to blur the difference between art and reality. Weischer’s painting takes up this tendency and reverses it. The interior is always recognizable asa classical theme of painting which-in the tradition of a specific genre explores the preconditions of its own medium. The irritating experimental mise-en-scene is not just confined to the abstract or material impact of color plans and the artificial construction of space. The lighting too has no illusionist-representational function. Light and shade become isolated, clearly separated planes. The light sources are not visible. The immobile materiality of the light makes time stand still in the image. The impression of a momentary insight gives way to the feeling of timelessness. Suzanne Pfeffer, translated by Pauline Cumbers, taken from S. Pfefferand Künstlerhaus Bremen, eds., Matthias Weischer: Simutan, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004, n.p.

37

Untitled

2003
Oil on canvas.
67 x 74 3/4 in. (170.2 x 189.9 cm).
Signed and dated “M. Weischer 2003” on the reverse.

Estimate
$300,000 - 400,000 

Sold for $421,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York