Untitled (Counting Without Riggers)

Details

Al Taylor (1948-1999)
Untitled (Counting Without Riggers)
inscribed and dated 'D-98.III' (on the reverse)
gouache, graphite, felt-tip pen, mica and correction fluid on tracing paper laid on paper
22 1/8 x 17 1/8in. (56.1 x 43.6cm.)
Executed in 1998

Provenance

Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

With its precise and poetic sign making, Untitled (Counting Without Riggers) witnesses Al Taylor’s unique spatial experimentations in drawing. Taylor’s practice, encompassing print-making, painting and sculpture, is characterised by a ceaseless dialogue that aims to break down boundaries between the imaginary and the objective, and two-dimensional and illusionistic space. Executed in 1998, in Untitled (Counting Without Riggers) mysterious round shapes reach out from the fictitious depth created by a grid of subtly traced squares and irregular lines. As Faye Hirsch has observed, ‘Even in two dimensions his vision –tied to objects and phenomena in the world, however abstracted – [is] richly spatial’ (F. Hirsch, ‘Book Review: Al Taylor Prints: Catalogue Raisonné’, in Art in Print, July – August 2014, p. 47).

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