Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)
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Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)

Untitled (Black Butterfly M02G)

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Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)
Untitled (Black Butterfly M02G)
signed, titled and dated 'MARK GROTJAHN 2002 Black Butterfly' (on the overlap)
oil on linen
48 x 34in. (121.9 x 86.4 cm.)
Painted in 2002
来源
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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拍品专文

Mark Grotjahn's Butterfly Paintings are the artist's most celebrated works to date. Deriving from the artist's fascination with signs and retro graphics, these works which essentially consist of a radiating sequence of parallel lines are executed in thick oil in such a way that an illusion of perspective is generated by the painting's butterfly form.

Built up steadily in a sequence of opaque layers and heavy texture,
Grotjahn's paintings bridge the worlds of abstract painting and amateur sign-making. This amateurish aspect of the work is wholly intentional with the radiating angular patterns of the design's perspectival wings always painted slightly off-kilter so that an uneasy but fascinating tension is established at the heart of the work. Rendered in rich deep tones of colour, the paintings evoke a strangely artificial world of adolescent dreaming. This quality is augmented by the clear emphasis on the hand-made nature of these works and by the often garish addition to them of the artist's hand-drawn monogrammatic signature and date.