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Christopher Wool — Untitled (The Show is Over)
Christopher Wool

Untitled (The Show is Over)

1993

This 1993 offset lithograph poster features bold, large-scale black typography arranged in a dense, overlapping composition against a white ground. The text reads as a fragmented, almost nonsensical stream of words that challenges legibility and encourages active decoding by the viewer. The work exemplifies conceptual approaches to language and meaning, where the visual presentation of words becomes as important as their semantic content. The heavy, industrial quality of the letterforms and the poster format situate this piece within contemporary art practices that engage with mass production and graphic design aesthetics.

Medium
Offset lithograph poster
Dimensions

Notes

Lot 363 in EHC Essentials: Modern and Contemporary on Artsy (May 19, 2026).

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EHC Essentials: Modern and Contemporary

May 19, 2026

Lot 363

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Christopher Wool, Untitled (The Show is Over), 1993

This 1993 offset lithograph poster features bold, large-scale black typography arranged in a dense, overlapping composition against a white ground. The text reads as a fragmented, almost nonsensical stream of words that challenges legibility and encourages active decoding by the viewer. The work exemplifies conceptual approaches to language and meaning, where the visual presentation of words becomes as important as their semantic content. The heavy, industrial quality of the letterforms and the poster format situate this piece within contemporary art practices that engage with mass production and graphic design aesthetics.

Medium
Offset lithograph poster
Dimensions
119 x 80 cm
Year
1993
Seen at
EHC Fine Art Auction, Unknown

Related themes

Postmodern Art, Legibility And Meaning, Visual Poetry, Institutional Critique, Poster Art, Offset Lithograph, Contemporary Abstraction, Conceptual Art, American Contemporary Art, 1990s Art, Abstract Text, Large Scale Text, Graphic Design, Appropriation Art, Typography, Black And White, Contemporary Printmaking, Word Based Imagery, Neo Conceptualism, Language Based Art

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Collected by

Hamilton Selway Gallery, Alex Capecelatro, Lisa Rembrandt