Experimenting with new mediums invigorated Kippenberger’s practice, allowing him to look upon his artistic themes with a renewed vitality. The beginning of Kippenberger’s series of subversive Latex and Rubber Paintings is marked by his 1990 earlier work, Big Dickie in the Studio. Stretching yellow latex over the canvas like a thin translucent skin, Kippenberger’s first manipulation of the medium prompted him to complete a series of approximately sixty monochromatic latex and rubber works the following year. The present lot, Untitled (Rubber Painting II), channels the artist’s interest in surface texture, with its relief like markings created in foil, latex, acrylic, pigment and gauze. Referencing his interest in high and low culture, drawing upon his sense of humour and parodying the social elements of the art world, Untitled (Rubber Painting II) contains almost cartoon-like elements. Through the textual quality of the latex and rubber, the viewer is forced to think of fetishism, bare skin and sex. Citing his own artistic vocabulary and library of motifs Kippenberger explores the idea of repetition and self-reference throughout his oeuvre.