“Zen is about acceptance, right?” Mr. Stingel said. “So that’s the way it is. I do sit and look at him sometimes — we have a meaningful relationship. You can’t get over it. You just live with it.” - Rudolph Stingel
This cast urethane rubber sculpture by Rudolf Stingel presents a strikingly lifelike yet uncanny form, rendered in the artist's characteristically introspective and meditative approach to materiality. The choice of industrial urethane rubber lends the work a tension between the synthetic and the deeply personal, echoing Stingel's philosophical musings on acceptance and coexistence with loss. The work invites quiet contemplation, suggesting an ongoing, unresolved dialogue between the artist and his subject — a relationship that cannot be undone, only endured.
- Medium
- cast urethane rubber
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 10, 2016
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