Rudolf Stingel Instructions 1989 diptych, silkscreen inks on Sintra, face-mounted on Plexiglas each: 42 1/2 x 61 1/4 in. (108 x 155.5 cm) Stamped with the artist's signature "Rudolf Stingel" lower right. This work is number one from an edition of five.
Provenance Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Sale: Christies, London, Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session, February 9, 2007, lot 434 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Literature M. De Carlo, ed., Rudolf Stingel Instructions/ Instruzioni/ Anleitung/ Mode d’emploi/ Instrucciones, 1989 (illustrated) 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
Rudolf Stingel Instructions 1989 diptych, silkscreen inks on Sintra, face-mounted on Plexiglas each: 42 1/2 x 61 1/4 in. (108 x 155.5 cm) Stamped with the artist's signature "Rudolf Stingel" lower right. This work is number one from an edition of five.
Provenance Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Sale: Christies, London, Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session, February 9, 2007, lot 434 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Literature M. De Carlo, ed., Rudolf Stingel Instructions/ Instruzioni/ Anleitung/ Mode d’emploi/ Instrucciones, 1989 (illustrated) 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
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