Details
Laura Owens (b. 1970)
Untitled
signed, titled and dated 'Untitled L. Owens 99' (on the overlap)
oil and acrylic on canvas
47 5/8 x 47 5/8in. (121 x 121cm.)
Painted in 1999
Provenance
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.
Private Collection, Rhineland.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited
Cologne, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Laura Owens, 1999.
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Wunschwelten/Ideal Worlds, Neue Romantik in der Kunst der Gegenwart, 2005.
Zurich, Kunsthalle Zürich, Laura Owens, 2006, no. 89 (illustrated, p. 209). This exhibition later travelled to London, Camden Arts Centre; Munich, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster and Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum.

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Lot Essay

'Many of her paintings use landscape elements as a major part of their subject matter, but in a breezily oneiric manner. They reflect certain aspects of the familiar world, but at the same time offer blueprints for an entirely imaginary one. This is not a distortion, but an accentuation of a southern Californian reality in which every view out of the window is a reminder of invented geographies and of uncontrolled climate experiments'
(R. Mengham, in Laura Owens, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Zrich, Zurich, 2006, p. 25).

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