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Martin KippenbergerWALL STREET, German Conceptual artist, biting social commentary, Signed, Framed1993
1993
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Scarce framed European work by this renowned German conceptual artist - rarely found stateside
Martin Kippenberger
Wall Street, 1993
Color lithograph and offset lithograph on board
Hand signed and dated lower right front Stamped on the back with the publisher's blind stamp, artist, title, year, edition 100/E.A.
Stamped on the back with the publisher's blind stamp, artist, title, year, edition 100/E.A.
(Note: this is designated as Epreuve D'Artiste (EA), an artist's proof aside from the regular edition of 100. It was based upon an original collage by the artist. However, it appears the only examples of this edition that have ever come to the public market are also Artist's Proofs (EA's). (The regular edition was said to be included in the European portfolio JFK.) Scarce!
Published by the 'Politischer Club Colonia für Studien und Aktionen zum Frieden, e.V.', Cologne (for studies and peace activities)
Provenance: The Chara Schreyer Collection (renowned philanthropist Cara Schreyer was considered on of the top art collectors in the world)
Frame included:
Elegantly floated and framed in a handmade wood museum frame under Optium plexiglass
Measurements:
Framed
24 inch vertical by 25.5 inches horizontal by 1.5
Artwork:
21.5 inches (vertical) by 23.5 inches (horizontal)
Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee
Kippenberger's Wall Street is full of biting social commentary about American society. In addition to the brazen text references (such as "I Love Peace and Money") and the title (Wall Street), it also depicts American artist Robert Gober's famous "Hanging Man/Sleeping Man: (in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum).
"Gober’s Hanging Man/Sleeping Man has become a touchstone of American art made during the political and social upheavals of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which included the AIDS epidemic, the culture wars, and the Los Angeles riots. The work features two images side by side, one of a sleeping white man in bed and another of a lynched black man hanging from a tree, their juxtaposition outlining the history of racial inequality in the United States. Gober came across the source images while researching hate crimes for an interview he conducted with Congressman John Conyers Jr., author of the Hate Crimes Statistics Act. The artist wrote recently about the genesis of Hanging Man/Sleeping Man, “So as I nursed friends who were dying unnaturally young […] in the face of deliberate government inaction, I was also thinking hard about American cruelty in a historical perspective. […] Hanging Man/Sleeping Man merged imagery that came intuitively out of those two big concerns.” - Matthew Marks Gallery
Martin Kippenberger Biography
(1953-1997)
Martin Kippenberger was born in Dortmund, Germany in 1953. Kippenberger worked in multiple mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, posters, photography and collage. Kippenberger was influenced early on by the work of Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. Through the years, he developed a diverse style that did not shy away from caustic political commentary. His harsh criticism of the artistic status quo and daily life issues became evident through provocative imagery and recurring motifs that in many cases represented the artist himself and aimed at shocking and disturbing the viewer. Kippenberger’s caustic and humorous works call into question the artist’s role within society and culture at large, as well as deeper issues of general culture and humanity. His famous Zuerst die Füsse (Feet First) from 1990, a self-mocking sculpture of a crucified frog with an egg and a beer mug, was created in response to harsh criticism that the artist received in an art publication. This unrestrained, bountiful commentary about the world around him is what makes Kippenberger’s oeuvre so powerful and compelling.
Both within his life, and since his passing, Martin Kippenberger’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions have been held in institutions such as the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn in 2019, Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna in 2016, theHamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin in 2013, the Picasso Museum in Málaga, 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 2008-2009, the Tate Modern in London and the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf in 2006, the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna, the VanAbbe Museum in Eindloven and the Museum für Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe and at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen in 2003.Martin Kippenberger died in Vienna in 1997.
-Courtesy Skarstedt
- Creator:Martin Kippenberger (1953 - 1997, German)
- Creation Year:1993
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:Excellent condition. Ships framed in hand made museum frame with UV plexiglass.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745215258122
Martin Kippenberger
For two prolific decades, Martin Kippenberger critiqued consumerism, pop culture, and art world status quo with provocative Neo-Expressionist paintings, sculptures, photographs, collages, and installations. Drawing from disparate art historical references including Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Sigmar Polke, Pop art, Social Realism, and punk, he remixed old styles to generate wild, funny, and new modes of artmaking. Kippenberger is known for self-portraits in which he riffed on historical paintings and often appropriated others’ work outright. In 1987, he turned a monochrome canvas by Gerhard Richter into a coffee table. For his series “Lieber Maler, Male Mir” (“Dear Painter, Paint for Me,” 1981), Kippenberger commissioned a sign painter in Berlin named Werner to produce several works for him; he then credited them to “Werner Kippenberger.” During his brief lifetime, Kippenberger exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States
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