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CHEYNEY THOMPSON | Untitled
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description
- Cheyney Thompson
- Untitled
- signed on the overlap
- metal powders in acrylic binder on linen
- 107 1/2 by 83 1/2 in. 273.5 by 212.1 cm.
- Executed in 2015.
Provenance
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Catalogue Note
The present work emanates from Cheyney Thompson's series of metal-based paintings. Thompson develops each painting by running the economic random walk theory against various metals traded on the commodities market. The pigments are then mixed with a binder and applied to the canvas in a manner reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionist all-over process. The only requirement of the artist is to fill the entire surface with the exact amount of pigments predetermined by the algorithm—in the present work: 108.64Chromium - 80.08Copper - 42.23Iron - 21.96Aluminum - 16.38Nickel - 84.46Cobalt - 51.89Silicon - 29.27Tungstan - 18.3Tin - 15.42Bismuth. Ultimately this process is an investigation of market forces (both economic and creative) and their influence on the role of artists and the industry in the contemporary era.