Double Runner

细节

Joe Bradley (b. 1975)
Double Runner
each: signed, titled and dated 'JOE BRADLEY DOUBLE RUNNER 2006' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas mounted on panel, in seven parts
overall: 104 x 78in. (264 x 198.1cm.)
Painted in 2006

来源

Peres Projects, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

展览

London, Saatchi Gallery, Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, 2009-2010 (illustrated in colour, p. 83).

注意事项

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拍品专文

Created in 2006, Joe Bradley's Double Runner offers a playful subversion of the conventions of minimalist painting. Recalling the grid patterns of Ad Reinhardt and the hard edged, pantone coloured paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, Bradley's work infuses both traditional formalism and a cartoonish humour to great effect. Arranged over seven parts in a spectrum of red, white and blue, Double Runner takes on a characteristically geometric shape. With its rectilinear grouping of vertical and horizontal elements it recalls two men in arms running along a track but articulated in a 'retrofuturistic' aesthetic of arcade game graphics. Towering at over two meters in height, the work is totemic, with a primitive and commanding presence that challenges the philosophically hard-line and self-referential definition of abstract painting.