Franz Ackermann - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York

  • Literature

    A. Gingeras, M. Holborn, and B. Schwabsky, The Triumph of Painting, London, 2005, p. 209 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    Explosive. Disorienting. An impression. Franz Ackermann’s paintings challenge the viewer to experience place from an altered perspective. At the core of his art is travel and speed. “Franz Ackermann is more than just a painter. He is a tracker, map-reader, collector, code-breaker, and constructor, a real roving observer,” (U. Grosenick, and B. Riemschneider, eds., Art Now, 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium, Berlin and Cologne, 2002, p. 12). With constructs of saturated, graphic forms of color, Ackermann collects, appropriates and assembles pieces that become other realms. This personal perspective creates new experiences and sensations that transcend the actual. In Helicopter XVI (On the Balcony), we hover above and move across, looking down as a tidal wave of propeller blades rapidly circulate. The speed, the motion, reminds us of the ephemeral nature of the material world, and provides snapshots of the ever changing variables of cultural identity. “When I make art, social and political questions overlap with my interest in communicating experiences,” (Franz Ackermann taken from ibid, p. 14.)

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Helicopter XVI (On the Balcony)

2001
Oil on canvas.
113 x 109 in. (287 x 276.9 cm).

Estimate
$300,000 - 400,000 

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York