“Silver makes everything look contemporary… If you paint something silver, it looks, I don’t know, from today.”
Rudolf Stingel's large-scale painting employs oil and enamel on canvas to achieve a luminous, metallic surface that collapses distinctions between past and present. The work's shimmering silver tones reflect light in constantly shifting ways, creating an almost industrial yet deeply painterly presence. True to its title, the piece interrogates how a single chromatic choice can transform perception, making any image or gesture feel urgently, unmistakably of the moment.
- Medium
- oil and enamel on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
May 16, 2013
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“Zen is about acceptance, right?” Mr. Stingel said. “So that’s the way it is. I do sit and look at him sometimes — we have a meaningful relationship. You can’t get over it. You just live with it.” - Rudolph Stingel
The radicalness of Stingel’s Cellotex panels is often underestimated. While rejecting any suggestion of being a social, political or conceptual gesture, these works may be some of the most open and brave moments in recent contemporary art production. As with his provocative instruction book on how to make his paintings, Stingel once again gives himself and his work, in their totality, to the public and the viewer. He invites the viewer inside the surface of his work, and allows anyone to make a 'contribution' to it. The critical voice of the viewer becomes part of the work. Like magnetic tape, the artist records the viewer’s reaction to his work – not simply verbally, but physically.
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