Isa Genzken - Contemporary Art Evening Sale New York Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Magnani Gallery, London

  • Literature


    Kunsthalle Zurich, ed., Isa Genzken: Catalogue Raisonné 1992-2003, Cologne, 2003, pp. 101 and 153, pl. 69 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay


    Genzken’s approach, which includes recourse to photography, video, film, collages, and collage books, does represent a continuous examination of the classic themes of sculpture: the ordering of masses and volumes; the relations between construction, surface design, and materials; the conception of and relation between objects, space, and the viewer. And regardless of the medium— from series executed in painted wood, plaster, and concrete to the more recent epoxy-resin hoods and lamps; assemblages of metal household utensils; and stelae—the artist questions the contemporary meaning of sculpture by taking up its vocabulary of forms, then expanding, discarding, and reinterpreting it. What the “traditional sculptor” label can’t quite capture, however, is Genzken’s remarkable ruthlessness--the manner in which her work underlines the rejection of traditional understandings of sculpture and space while reflecting on and disclosing the specific circumstances of their production and reception. The integration of a range of references—personal, social, and institutional—with the question of the (im)possibility of exchange and communication constitutes the second pole of Genzken’s working process.
    A. Wege, “Isa Genzken,” Artforum, New York, October 2000

12

Schwules Baby

1997

Steel and aluminum.

43 x 16 1/8 x 13 3/4 in. (109 x 41 x 35 cm). This work is unique.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

4 Mar 2010
New York