
Urlaub
Isa Genzken's *Urlaub* is a dynamic assemblage of everyday and industrial materials—glass, lacquer, plastics, metal, wood, and photograph—layered together in a chaotic yet deliberate composition. The work reflects Genzken's ongoing engagement with consumer culture and urban life, transforming mundane objects into a fragmented portrait of modern existence. The inclusion of a photograph grounds the piece in a sense of personal or collective memory, while the clashing materials evoke the sensory overload of contemporary leisure and travel.
- Medium
- glass, lacquer, plastics, metal, wood, photograph
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 16, 2014
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Thomas Hirschhorn
Swiss · b. 1957

Hirschhorn constructs chaotic assemblages using cheap industrial and consumer materials like tape, cardboard, foil, and found photographs that similarly evoke the sensory overload of modern urban life and consumer culture. His fragmented, layered compositions share the same deliberate rawness and engagement with collective memory found in Urlaub.

Jason Rhoades
American · b. 1965

Rhoades created sprawling mixed media installations combining industrial materials, plastics, consumer goods, and everyday objects in compositions that mirror Genzken's chaotic yet purposeful layering of disparate materials. His work similarly interrogates consumer culture and modern existence through colorful, experimental, and maximalist assemblage.

Sarah Lucas
British · b. 1962

Lucas assembles found objects, photographs, and everyday industrial materials into playful yet provocative sculptural works that engage with materiality and cultural life in ways that closely parallel Genzken's approach in Urlaub. Her use of photography combined with physical mixed media objects to create layered, irreverent compositions reflects the same experimental and colorful sensibility.
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