Martin
Kippenberger
Untitled (Floating Figures)
1982, Oil on Canvas
170 x 183cm |
Borrowing equally from graffiti and traditional
avant garde painting O.T.'s strange floating figures
are reminiscent of surrealist artists such as Joan Miro, while
its impoverished style and construction keeps in line with
Martin Kippenberger's populist values.
By piecing together 7 canvases, Martin Kippenberger creates
the illusion of grandeur - an image too enormous to be contained
in just one. Untitled trades in high-art esteem for
a certain comic brutality; it's beautiful and stupid at the
same time, a re-invention of abstract painting for a sophisticated
and grown-up Hanna-Barbara generation. |