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Lot Essay
Executed in 2006, Untitled by Isa Genzken is composed of fragmented elements. The wheelchair acts as a pedestal for the hologram foil, bowls and various other found objects. The idiosyncratic concoction of throwaway objects, ephemera and urban debris comes from the realm of the everyday, and brings into sharp focus the tension between banality, brutality and beauty.
Born in 1948, Isa Genzken is considered to be one of the most influential female artists of the past thirty years. Part of the artistic discourse since she first began exhibiting in the mid-1970s, Genzken has been particularly productive over the past decade, creating a new artistic language that explores the relations between art, architecture, design, and social experience. Most renowned for her assemblage sculptures, such as Untitled, Genzken augments her usually svelte and sophisticated formalism to create assemblages of maximum overload. Harvesting, fusing and re-constructing references from myriad sources, she takes an anything-goes approach to the materials she uses to convey multiple meanings in unconventional ways.
Genzkens fusion of varying elements into the realm of sculpture has influenced generations of younger artists. By juxtaposing the stuff of consumer culture and found objects, Untitled is simultaneously comical, poetic and disturbing. The full range and depth of Genzkens artistic achievements in paintings, sculptures, collages, drawings and photographs will be fully manifested in Genzkens upcoming retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Born in 1948, Isa Genzken is considered to be one of the most influential female artists of the past thirty years. Part of the artistic discourse since she first began exhibiting in the mid-1970s, Genzken has been particularly productive over the past decade, creating a new artistic language that explores the relations between art, architecture, design, and social experience. Most renowned for her assemblage sculptures, such as Untitled, Genzken augments her usually svelte and sophisticated formalism to create assemblages of maximum overload. Harvesting, fusing and re-constructing references from myriad sources, she takes an anything-goes approach to the materials she uses to convey multiple meanings in unconventional ways.
Genzkens fusion of varying elements into the realm of sculpture has influenced generations of younger artists. By juxtaposing the stuff of consumer culture and found objects, Untitled is simultaneously comical, poetic and disturbing. The full range and depth of Genzkens artistic achievements in paintings, sculptures, collages, drawings and photographs will be fully manifested in Genzkens upcoming retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.