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David Ostrowski — F (Plötzlich Prinzessin)
David Ostrowski

F (Plötzlich Prinzessin)

F (Plötzlich Prinzessin) exemplifies David Ostrowski's signature approach to reductive painting, where restraint and immediacy take precedence over technical elaboration. A collaged fragment of paper anchors the composition against an expansive, nearly bare canvas, while thin passages of oil and lacquer trace gestural, almost accidental marks across the surface. The work embraces incompleteness as a formal strategy, questioning the boundaries between effort and indifference in contemporary painting.

Medium
oil, lacquer, paper on canvas

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

February 13, 2015

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David Ostrowski, F (Plötzlich Prinzessin)

F (Plötzlich Prinzessin) exemplifies David Ostrowski's signature approach to reductive painting, where restraint and immediacy take precedence over technical elaboration. A collaged fragment of paper anchors the composition against an expansive, nearly bare canvas, while thin passages of oil and lacquer trace gestural, almost accidental marks across the surface. The work embraces incompleteness as a formal strategy, questioning the boundaries between effort and indifference in contemporary painting.

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

Related themes

German Artist, Large Format Canvas, Minimalist, Muted Palette, Male Artist, Mixed Media, Oil And Lacquer, Abstract Painting, Contemporary Artist, Muted Tones, Canvas, Sparse Composition, Abstract Expressionism, Gestural Abstraction, 21st Century, Reductive Painting, Minimalist Style

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