Rudolf Stingel

Galleria A, Lugano
Private Collection, Italy
Private Collection, Switzerland

This work is in excellent condition overall. The canvas is unlined. There is some faint scattered pigment separation visible throughout, due to the artist’s working method and choice of medium. Under very close inspection there are some very fine, unobtrusive light surface scratches at the extreme edges. Unframed.
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“To paint is to act. Yet this action does not necessarily produce a painting. Most of the time, the result is an approximation of an ideal painting that exists in the mind of the painter. Although painting can be an action, it must also be an observation. The mere act of painting does not create a Painting but simply some painting. But if the action of painting is used as a lens to observe reality to create another reality, then we have a Painting. Stingel creates a transitive way to recede from abstraction into the subject and to push the subject into a different kind of time.” (Francesco Bonami, ed., Rudolf Stingel, London, 2007, pp. 13-14)