
"I am an abstract painter. I am interested in visual language. It’s not easy to put words to it.” Christopher Wool
A commanding grid of bold, stencilled black letters fills the aluminium surface, fragmented and compressed into dense, wall-like blocks of text that challenge the viewer to decode their meaning. Wool's signature use of industrial enamel on metal strips the work of painterly warmth, lending it a stark, graphic urgency that hovers between image and language. The words themselves — a painter's confession of the limits of verbal expression — become an ironic visual object, embodying the very tension they describe.
- Medium
- enamel on aluminium
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
February 14, 2013
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