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Franz Ackermann — Helicopter XVIII (reality check)
Franz Ackermann

Helicopter XVIII (reality check)

A swirling vortex of vivid, saturated color dominates this large-scale oil painting, with fragmented urban forms and psychedelic patterning collapsing into one another in a dizzying aerial perspective. Ackermann channels the disorienting experience of modern global travel and over-stimulation through dense, gestural brushwork that simultaneously evokes cartographic abstraction and sensory overload. The work continues his ongoing "Helicopter" series, in which the bird's-eye viewpoint serves as a metaphor for detached observation of a fractured, hyper-connected world.

Medium
oil on canvas

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

May 16, 2014

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Franz Ackermann, Helicopter XVIII (reality check)

A swirling vortex of vivid, saturated color dominates this large-scale oil painting, with fragmented urban forms and psychedelic patterning collapsing into one another in a dizzying aerial perspective. Ackermann channels the disorienting experience of modern global travel and over-stimulation through dense, gestural brushwork that simultaneously evokes cartographic abstraction and sensory overload. The work continues his ongoing "Helicopter" series, in which the bird's-eye viewpoint serves as a metaphor for detached observation of a fractured, hyper-connected world.

Medium
oil on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Bold, Expressionism, Energetic, Gestural, Movement, German, Colorful, Abstract, Oil on Canvas, Contemporary

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