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JPW3 — PF
JPW3

PF

2015

PF commands immediate attention through its monumental scale, stretching 274 by 183 centimeters in a format that positions the work firmly within the tradition of large-scale gestural abstraction while refusing its conventions. JPW3 works with wax as a primary medium, layering it with ink transfer and edding marker on paper to produce a surface that is simultaneously luminous and matte, translucent and opaque. The result is a tension between materials that seem resistant to one another, the wax repelling and absorbing in equal measure, creating passages of unexpected depth beneath what initially reads as a flat, graphic surface. JPW3, the pseudonym of the Berlin-based artist Jonathan Pylypchuk, brings to this work his characteristic conflation of high and low visual languages, drawing on signage, cartoon vernacular, and abstract expressionist gesture without settling comfortably into any of them. The edding marker, a deliberately ordinary tool associated with labeling and street writing, cuts through the wax with a bluntness that disrupts any reading of the work as purely painterly or refined. This productive friction is central to the artist's practice and gives PF its particular charge, where sophistication and rawness occupy the same plane without hierarchy. Completed in 2015 and representing a strong period in the artist's development, PF is available through Galerie Nagel Draxler and is offered signed by the artist. Works of this scale and material complexity from this period are infrequently available on the primary and secondary markets, making the piece a meaningful acquisition for collectors focused on international abstract and post-conceptual painting.

Medium
Wax with ink transfer and edding on paper
Overall
Signed
Yes

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JPW3, PF, 2015

PF commands immediate attention through its monumental scale, stretching 274 by 183 centimeters in a format that positions the work firmly within the tradition of large-scale gestural abstraction while refusing its conventions. JPW3 works with wax as a primary medium, layering it with ink transfer and edding marker on paper to produce a surface that is simultaneously luminous and matte, translucent and opaque. The result is a tension between materials that seem resistant to one another, the wax repelling and absorbing in equal measure, creating passages of unexpected depth beneath what initially reads as a flat, graphic surface. JPW3, the pseudonym of the Berlin-based artist Jonathan Pylypchuk, brings to this work his characteristic conflation of high and low visual languages, drawing on signage, cartoon vernacular, and abstract expressionist gesture without settling comfortably into any of them. The edding marker, a deliberately ordinary tool associated with labeling and street writing, cuts through the wax with a bluntness that disrupts any reading of the work as purely painterly or refined. This productive friction is central to the artist's practice and gives PF its particular charge, where sophistication and rawness occupy the same plane without hierarchy. Completed in 2015 and representing a strong period in the artist's development, PF is available through Galerie Nagel Draxler and is offered signed by the artist. Works of this scale and material complexity from this period are infrequently available on the primary and secondary markets, making the piece a meaningful acquisition for collectors focused on international abstract and post-conceptual painting.

Medium
Wax with ink transfer and edding on paper
Dimensions
overall: 274 x 183 cm
Year
2015
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Galerie Nagel Draxler

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