Clouds (22)
Mona Hatoum's "Clouds (22)" combines oil and colored ink drawing on a paper plate to create an ethereal exploration of atmospheric phenomena and their visual representation. The work exemplifies Hatoum's interest in challenging conventional art materials and surfaces, using the utilitarian paper plate as a ground that complicates the distinction between everyday object and fine art. Through layered gestural marks and chromatic variations, the artist captures the transient, amorphous quality of clouds while engaging with themes of ephemerality and material transformation central to her practice.
- Medium
- Oil and ink drawing in colors, on paper plate.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Editions & Works on Paper
February 12, 2025
Lot 51
Artists in conversation
Cy Twombly
American · b. 1928
Twombly similarly combined oil and ink gestural marks on unconventional surfaces to evoke atmospheric and transient phenomena, creating layered chromatic works that blur the boundary between drawing and painting with a similarly ethereal and amorphous quality.
Tacita Dean
British · b. 1965
Dean shares Hatoum's conceptual interest in capturing ephemeral atmospheric and cloud formations through unconventional materials and surfaces, frequently working in series format to explore the transient nature of natural phenomena with a poetic and contemplative mood.
Terry Winters
American · b. 1949
Winters creates oil and ink works on paper that use layered gestural marks and chromatic variation to render amorphous organic forms, sharing Hatoum's approach of combining fine art materials in ways that produce ethereal and visually complex atmospheric compositions.
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