Chrissie Iles: 'the parameters of painting and architecture are turned inside out. The traditional qualities of painting... pictorialism, flatness, illusion, composition, and autonomy... become corrupted by a new symbolic framework, in which painting metamorphoses.' (Chrissie Iles, ‘Surface Tension’, in Exh. Cat., Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
Rudolf Stingel's *Chrissie Iles: 'the parameters of painting and architecture are turned inside out...'* is an oil and enamel on canvas work that challenges the conventional boundaries of painting through its self-referential engagement with critical theory. By embedding the words of curator Chrissie Iles directly into the work, Stingel collapses the distinction between art object and art discourse, allowing the painted surface to simultaneously describe and enact its own transformation. The work exemplifies Stingel's broader investigation into the nature of painting itself, where flatness, illusion, and autonomy are destabilized and reimagined within a conceptual framework.
- Medium
- oil and enamel on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
June 27, 2016
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