
Leave the Lab and Enter the Office
In this offset lithograph, Sigmar Polke employs his characteristically subversive and layered approach, printing in colors on both sides of translucent tracing paper to create a ghostly interplay of overlapping imagery and text. The translucency of the sheet allows the reverse-side printing to bleed through, producing a disorienting visual effect that blurs the boundary between front and back, figure and ground. True to Polke's conceptual wit, the work engages with themes of institutional transition and everyday absurdity, transforming a mundane directive into a meditation on systems of control and social order.
- Medium
- Offset lithograph in colors, on tracing paper printed on both sides, the full sheet.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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Editions & Works on Paper
October 17, 2017
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