
WTP
2025
WTP presents a masterwork of contemporary trompe l'oeil, depicting crumpled golden wrapping paper and tape rendered with illusionistic precision against a dramatically gradated background that shifts from cool purples to warm burnt oranges. A smiley face, sketched in pale yellows and whites, floats above the material, creating an unsettling juxtaposition between gesture and object, human expression and lifeless refuse. The composition leverages the artist's signature exploration of surface illusion and tactile materiality, inviting viewers to question the boundary between representation and reality. Mühlenbrink's practice extends the legacy of photorealistic painting into the conceptual realm, transforming mundane packaging materials into vehicles for meditation on perception, value, and the act of looking itself.
- Medium
- Oil and acrylic on canvas
- Overall
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Cuturi Gallery
Notes
Cuturi Gallery, Singapore. Works are located in Singapore; price exclusive of taxes. Inventory ref: INV-0326.
For Sale — €4900
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