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Rudolf Stingel
Untitled
- Estimate
- $120,000 - 180,000
$137,500
Lot Details
oil and enamel on canvas
67 1/2 x 78 1/2 in. (171.3 x 199.5 cm.)
Executed in 1986.
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Catalogue Essay
“[Stingel] has developed a singular approach to painting that aims to undermine the very essence of the creative act. His works do not always conform to painting’s traditional definition of paint on canvas, yet in their simultaneous attention to surface, image, color and space, they create new paradigms for the meaning of painting.”
(Robert Fitzpatrick, “Foreword” in Rudolf Stingel, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2007, p. 9)
(Robert Fitzpatrick, “Foreword” in Rudolf Stingel, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2007, p. 9)
Provenance
Rudolf Stingel
Italian | 1956Rudolf Stingel came to prominence in the late 1980s for his insistence on the conceptual act of painting in a context in which it had been famously declared dead. Despite the prevailing minimalist and conceptual narrative of the time, the Italian-born artist sought to confront the fundamental aspirations and failures of Modernist painting through the very medium of painting itself. While his works do not always conform to the traditional definitions of painting, their attention to surface, space, color and image provide new and expanded ways of thinking about the process and "idea" of painting. Central to his multifarious and prolific oeuvre is an examination of the passage of time and the probing of the fundamental questions of authenticity, meaning, hierarchy, authorship and context by dislocating painting both internally and in time and space. Stingel is best known for his wall-to-wall installations, constructed of fabric or malleable Celotex sheets, as well as his seemingly more traditional oil-on-canvas paintings.
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