
Kassel
"Kassel" by Adam McEwen is a provocative mixed-media work that combines acrylic paint with chewing gum on canvas, merging the refined traditions of painting with the discarded residue of everyday life. The inclusion of chewing gum as a material challenges conventional notions of artistic value and permanence, evoking themes of consumption, transience, and the mundane. The work reflects McEwen's ongoing interest in subverting expectations through unexpected materials and cultural commentary.
- Medium
- acrylic and chewing gum on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
November 10, 2015
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Maurizio Cattelan
Italian · b. 1960

Cattelan similarly incorporates everyday and discarded materials into conceptual works that provoke and subvert conventional artistic expectations. His practice shares McEwen's sharp cultural commentary and use of mundane objects to challenge notions of value and permanence.

Urs Fischer
Swiss · b. 1973

Fischer consistently merges unconventional materials with painterly traditions to create works that interrogate transience and consumption, closely paralleling McEwen's approach in Kassel. His experimental mixed media canvases similarly blur the boundary between the refined and the throwaway.

Danh Vo
Danish · b. 1975

Vo incorporates residual and culturally loaded everyday materials into conceptual artworks that question permanence and the hierarchies of artistic value, echoing the thematic core of Kassel. His bold conceptual gestures and interest in the mundane align directly with McEwen's mixed media sensibility.
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