Untitled (Face 688)

细节

Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)
Untitled (Face 688)
signed and dated twice 'MARK 07' (upper left) and 'Grotjahn 07' (lower left), and signed with the artist's initials and dated 'MPG 07' (lower right); signed, titled and dated twice 'UNTITLED (FACE 688) 2007 M. Grotjahn 2007' (on the reverse)
oil on cardboard laid down on linen mounted on panel
60 x 51in. (152.3 x 129.5cm.)
Executed in 2007

来源

Gagosian Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.

出版

M. Henry, The New Atlantis: Abstract America, London 2008.
E. Booth-Clibborn (ed.), The Histroy of the Saatchi Gallery, London, 2011 (illustrated in colour, p. 693).

展览

London, Saatchi Gallery, Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, 2009-2010 (illustrated in colour, p. 67).

注意事项

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拍品专文

Executed in 2007, Untitled (Face 688) is a vibrant, polychromatic mask painting by Mark Grotjahn. Rich with expressive, almost graffiti-type radial lines, the work contains a wealth of striated almond shape eyes and savage teeth. The materials employed have an innate rawness, distressed corrugated cardboard giving way to unprimed linen. Like the European "matire" works of the 1940s and 50s, Untitled (Face 688) is less a painting than a relief, the surface appearing textured and invitingly tactile. As Robert Storr has eloquently described, 'on top of this already dynamic surface, the artist applies heavy impasto with a combination of brush and palette knife that causes colours to traverse, tailgate, and smear into each other, resulting in a constant chromatic cackle as complementary and secondary contrasts spark and flare like chain reaction fireworks' (R. Storr, 'LA Push-Pull/Po-Mo-Stop-Go', Mark Grotjahn, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, London, 2009, p. 7).