Franz Ackermann - Contemporary Artists

New Building

New Building The Saatchi Gallery
 

Franz Ackermann

New Building

1999
Oil on Canvas

260 x 200cm

Ackermann paints New Building as a package holiday resort spiralling out of control. Destination: doesn’t matter. This exact development could be found anywhere. His warped perspective and candy-coloured banners compose an off-kilter composition, both unsettling and jubilant.

A triumph of marketing over nature, his hard-edged abstraction springs like Poseidon’s gift from the sea: the new universal symbol for ‘beach’.
 
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