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Rudolf Stingel Untitled 1989 oil and enamel on canvas 65 5/8 x 44 in. (166.7 x 112 cm.) Signed and dated "Stingel 89" on the reverse.
Provenance Van de Weghe Fine Arts, New York Catalogue Essay “Silver makes everything look contemporary… If you paint something silver, it looks, I don’t know, from today.” RUDOLF STINGEL 2004 While painting is an action, it must also be an observation. The mere act of painting does not create a painting but simply some painting. But if the action of painting is used as a lens to observe reality to create another reality, then we have a Painting... Stingel creates a transitive way to recede from abstraction into the subject and to push the subject into a different kind of time.” (Francesco Bonami ed., ‘Paintings of Paintings for Paintings – The Kairology and Kronology of Rudolf Stingel’ in Rudolf Stingel London, 2007, pp. 13-14) First recognized in the late 1980s for his monochromatic works, Rudolf Stingel has developed a singular approach to painting aiming to examine and reinvigorate the very essence of creative acts. Characterized by simultaneous attention to surface, image, color and space he creates new paradigms for the meaning of painting: Reflecting upon the fundamental questions concerning the practice today– authenticity, meaning, hierarchy and context. Stingel’s works form a unique approach, attempting to overcome the gap between figuration and abstraction, constantly negotiating a balance between kairos and kronos. That is, between the exact moment of time in which the viewer is confronted with the present – or its illusion for that matter – and the eternal time, which never ends but concludes in abstraction. Stingel thus moves painting one step further, understanding that it carries energy and consumes it, and that abstraction happens when the power goes of momentarily. Read More Artist Bio Rudolf Stingel Italian • 1956 New York-based Italian artist Rudolf Stingel was first recognized in the late 1980s for his singular conceptual approach to painting. He constantly questions the function, utility and limits of the medium through hyper-detailed stencil work and by way of a lavish bourgeois aesthetic thrown onto bordered surfaces. Borrowing from the Baroque, Stingel sets up a visual landscape from which the viewer expects excess, but that quickly destabilizes the field of vision by creating a perfectly contained work of traditional beauty. In effort to push the effect of painting to its limits, Stingel notoriously challenges questions of authorship by using various materials, including carpet, styrofoam and silver sheets, to recontextualize surface, depth and color. View More Works