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Jim Kempner — Sell the fucking Christopher Wool
Jim Kempner

Sell the fucking Christopher Wool

2014

Bold, irreverent, and unmistakably of its cultural moment, Jim Kempner's 2014 colour screenprint confronts the art market's speculative frenzy with the blunt directness of a trading floor command. The work's textual declaration, rendered with the graphic confidence of commercial printing traditions, turns the language of financial impatience into a pointed critique of how blue-chip contemporary art circulates among collectors, dealers, and wealth managers alike. Kempner mines the intersection of pop sensibility and market satire, producing an object that is simultaneously a product of the very system it interrogates and a knowing commentary on the anxieties that drive it. Executed on wove paper at a generous sheet size of 102 by 71 centimetres, the print carries the visual authority of a work designed to hold a room, its scale reinforcing the declarative energy of its subject matter. The edition is pencil-monogrammed JK on the reverse, confirming the artist's direct involvement in its authentication and release. The screenprint medium is well-chosen here, its origins in mass reproduction lending an additional layer of irony to a work that names one of contemporary art's most market-celebrated figures as its central provocation. For collectors drawn to works that occupy the space between conceptual rigour and sharp wit, this print rewards extended attention. It functions as a document of a particular cultural climate, capturing the moment when secondary market enthusiasm for certain artists became loud, public, and almost comedic in its intensity. Kempner's work holds that tension with precision, offering something that is visually assured, historically anchored, and genuinely funny.

Medium
Colour Screenprint
Signed
Yes

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Jim Kempner, Sell the fucking Christopher Wool, 2014

Bold, irreverent, and unmistakably of its cultural moment, Jim Kempner's 2014 colour screenprint confronts the art market's speculative frenzy with the blunt directness of a trading floor command. The work's textual declaration, rendered with the graphic confidence of commercial printing traditions, turns the language of financial impatience into a pointed critique of how blue-chip contemporary art circulates among collectors, dealers, and wealth managers alike. Kempner mines the intersection of pop sensibility and market satire, producing an object that is simultaneously a product of the very system it interrogates and a knowing commentary on the anxieties that drive it. Executed on wove paper at a generous sheet size of 102 by 71 centimetres, the print carries the visual authority of a work designed to hold a room, its scale reinforcing the declarative energy of its subject matter. The edition is pencil-monogrammed JK on the reverse, confirming the artist's direct involvement in its authentication and release. The screenprint medium is well-chosen here, its origins in mass reproduction lending an additional layer of irony to a work that names one of contemporary art's most market-celebrated figures as its central provocation. For collectors drawn to works that occupy the space between conceptual rigour and sharp wit, this print rewards extended attention. It functions as a document of a particular cultural climate, capturing the moment when secondary market enthusiasm for certain artists became loud, public, and almost comedic in its intensity. Kempner's work holds that tension with precision, offering something that is visually assured, historically anchored, and genuinely funny.

Medium
Colour Screenprint
Year
2014
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
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Koller Auctions

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