Untitled # 11

Details

Markus Amm (B. 1969)
Untitled # 11
household gloss on paper collage and oil on canvas
79.1/2 x 59.1/2in. (202 x 151cm.)
Executed in 2008

Provenance

Herald St, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.

Exhibited

London, Herald Street Gallery, Markus Amm, 2008.
London, Saatchi Gallery, Germania, 2008 (illustrated in colour, p. 193).

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‘You can’t act as though modernism can be reinvented; everyone knows the historical development it went through. Humor and irony are perhaps a good way to approach it. I wasn’t interested in holy values that lay claim to a final and timeless beauty. I don’t believe in that; on the contrary. When I approach modernism it means breaking with all these clichés’

(M. Amm, quoted in O. Koerner von Gustorf, ‘”You Can’t Reinvent Modernism”: An Encounter with Markus Amm’, https://www.db-artmag.com/en/56/feature/markus-amm-you-cant-reinvent-modernism/ [accessed 14 January 2014]).

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