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Magnus Plessen — Front/Side/Back
Magnus Plessen

Front/Side/Back

Magnus Plessen's *Front/Side/Back* is a diptych rendered in oil on canvas that explores the fragmented and elusive nature of the human figure through the artist's characteristic reductive language. Plessen's stark, almost diagrammatic forms dissolve the body into spare, geometric shapes that feel simultaneously clinical and deeply personal, suspended against open, minimally worked fields of paint. The diptych format reinforces a sense of multiplicity and incompleteness, as if the figure can only be approximated through accumulation rather than singular, definitive representation.

Medium
oil on canvas, diptych

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

May 15, 2015

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Magnus Plessen, Front/Side/Back

Magnus Plessen's *Front/Side/Back* is a diptych rendered in oil on canvas that explores the fragmented and elusive nature of the human figure through the artist's characteristic reductive language. Plessen's stark, almost diagrammatic forms dissolve the body into spare, geometric shapes that feel simultaneously clinical and deeply personal, suspended against open, minimally worked fields of paint. The diptych format reinforces a sense of multiplicity and incompleteness, as if the figure can only be approximated through accumulation rather than singular, definitive representation.

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

Related themes

German Artist, Figurative Painting, Figure Study, Fragmented Figure, Contemplative Mood, Sparse Palette, Muted Palette, Male Artist, Psychological Mood, Contemporary Artist, Sparse Composition, Diptych, Reductive Figuration, 21st Century, Fragmented Form, Human Figure, Early 21st Century, Neo-Expressionism, Oil on Canvas, Fragmented Forms

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