
Splitter
1999
Günther Uecker's 'Splitter' (1999) employs nails, acrylic, and wood on paper mounted on panel to create textured abstract compositions. The work exemplifies Uecker's signature tactile approach to creating visual and spatial effects.
- Medium
- nails, acrylic and wood on paper on panel
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
April 16, 2021
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Heinz Mack
German · b. 1931

As a co-founder of ZERO group alongside Uecker, Mack similarly explores tactile surfaces and light through repetitive structural elements in monochrome abstract works. His relief constructions share the same visual rhythm and materiality found in Splitter.

Lucio Fontana
Italian-Argentine · b. 1899

Fontana's Spatialism similarly transforms flat surfaces into three dimensional tactile experiences through physical intervention into materials, creating bold abstract works where texture and space become the primary subjects. His punctured and slashed canvases share the same aggressive material directness as Uecker's nail compositions.

Arman
French-American · b. 1928

Arman's accumulation works similarly employ repetitive arrangements of everyday industrial objects embedded into surfaces to create bold monochromatic relief compositions. His systematic use of found objects as texture-generating elements closely parallels Uecker's nail-based approach in Splitter.
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