Rudolf Stingel has spent the past three decades exploring the boundaries of painting, pattern and design through his experimentation with surface and materiality. Rendered in opulent gold,
2014
Rudolf Stingel's oil and enamel on canvas is rendered in opulent gold, showcasing his decades-long exploration of painting, pattern, and design through a masterful engagement with surface and materiality. The work's lustrous, richly textured surface challenges conventional boundaries between fine art and decorative craft, inviting viewers to reconsider the nature of painting itself. Stingel's meticulous attention to finish and form transforms the canvas into a shimmering, almost tactile experience that blurs the line between abstraction and ornamentation.
- Medium
- oil and enamel on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
May 18, 2017
More by Rudolf Stingel
Always one to challenge the boundaries of art, Rudolf Stingel strives to dispel the preconceptions based around art’s elevated status and actively negates any notions of hierarchy within its production. Using a broad range of mediums and techniques, Stingel explores various means of artistic expression, however, what transcends all of his pieces is an inherently reductionist approach. Peeling away areas, scratching into surfaces, carving out patches in his material, are just some of the ways the artist signals his presence. In this manner, Stingel refuses to conform to notions of the artist’s hand bringing clarity and development.
Working across the various media of painting, sculpture and installation, Rudolf Stingel has always challenged the very nature of artistic practices in order to critically reveal the technical processes that lies behind them. In the present lot
Rudolf Stingel
Artists in conversation
Yves Klein
French · b. 1928
Klein similarly elevated monochromatic surfaces into luxurious, almost sacred experiences, using unconventional materials like gold leaf and metalite to transform painting into a shimmering tactile object that challenges the boundary between fine art and decorative surface.
Anselm Reyle
German · b. 1970
Reyle creates maximalist abstract paintings with gold and metallic enamel surfaces that share Stingel's opulent aesthetic and preoccupation with materiality, pattern, and the seductive interplay between decorative craft and conceptual fine art.
Damien Hirst
British · b. 1965
Hirst's spot paintings and gold encrusted works share Stingel's luxurious surface experimentation, maximalist sensibility, and deliberate interrogation of where decorative pattern ends and serious conceptual painting begins.
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