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
Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, Rudolf Stingel consistently challenges conventional artistic practices by critically exposing the technical processes that underlie them. In this work, Stingel employs enamel and oil on linen to further explore his ongoing investigation into the nature and boundaries of the painted surface. The combination of these media reflects his signature approach to questioning authorship, process, and materiality in contemporary art.
- Medium
- enamel and oil on linen
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
November 8, 2015
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.
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
Artists in conversation
Gerhard Richter
German · b. 1932
Richter similarly interrogates the boundaries of painting through process driven abstraction, often combining multiple media on canvas to expose the mechanics of image making and question authorship in contemporary art.
Wade Guyton
American · b. 1972
Guyton shares Stingel's conceptual focus on materiality and process, working with linen surfaces and mixed media applications that foreground the technical conditions of painting rather than pure aesthetic expression.
Niele Toroni
Swiss · b. 1937
Toroni consistently investigates the fundamental nature of the painted mark and surface through systematic process based application of paint on linen, echoing Stingel's ongoing interrogation of what constitutes a painting and the role of the artist's hand.
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