"Handkiss", abstract colour print, signed and numbered by Polke (32/75)

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Sigmar Polke
"Handkiss", abstract colour print, signed and numbered by Polke (32/75)
1995

About the Item

Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) was one of the most important german artists of the late 20th century. In 1961 he joined with Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg and Gerhard Richter the class of Karl Otto Götz at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and these four upcoming artists presented their latest works in 1963 in their self-curated exhibition to bring the newest art movements from oversea and Paris to Germany. On the invitation cards they printed the terminologies „Pop Art, Junk Culture, Nouveau Realisme, Common Object Painting, Neo Dada, New Vulgarismus, Antikunst, Know-Nothing-Genre“ and they proclaimed for themselves to be the first artists to show Pop Art, independently developed in Germany, not just as a copy or an American import. But Polke showed right from the beginning an ironic distance to the sociocritical style of his combatants, that will run through his entire Oeuvre. Influenced by the Fluxus and Neo Dada scene around Joseph Beuys, Daniel Spoerri, Dick Higgins and others in the early 1960s, Polke developed his own style characterized by an anarchic mind and esprit. Similar to the Pop Art Polke searched for the aesthetic in the trivial but here too he simultaneously disavowed the trivial through irony. Very typical for Polke are the famous grid images, known from newspaper printings, where we have horizontal, uniform lines of small dots and by combining certain dots there arises a form. By using perforated sheets and airbrush he could overlay more monochrome grids to create vibrating images and he often played in the printing process with enforced mistakes and errors to disassemble the firm surface of an image to a process of decomposition. Next to the irony and anarchy other keywords to his works are heterogeneity, poly-perspectivity and multivalent metamorphoses in which every reality could be something possibly different at the same time. A world where everything is connected, not by fundamental unity, but by fragmentary dispersion. Because there is no one true reality, he transfers his works in an intermediate state of transformability. Handkuss (1995) Four-coloured Offset- and Screenprint on Hahnemühle-Büttencardboard 75 x 55 cm (sheet-size) 87.4 x 66.7 cm (frame-size) Original wooden frame (white) by the workshop of the Gallery Heinz Holtmann, Schüller, Eifel, Germany Edition of 75 and XX Artists Proofs, signed, dated and numbered (32/75) by hand Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany Cat. Raisonné (Edit. von der Osten) Nr. 107 The central two figures in this print are the man in the right kissing gently and polite the hand of the woman in the central left side. They are drawn by single white lines on the black background. In the same style of drawing and merging with the womans body there are more scribblings and the viewer can sense an old mans face. This very clear and articulate drawn lines are overdrawn by two roughly painted blocks of white and lilac and in the bottom left edge is yellow spray colour which also could have facial forms. Polke plays with different kinds of drawings by overlaying the fine lined sketches with the blocks of slathered paint and the spray paint. The viewer is left by him in doubt if it is printed or drawn. He even signed it in white color in the right bottom edge to enhance the appearance of a painting.

Creator:
Sigmar Polke (1941 - 2010, German)
Creation Year:
1995
Dimensions:
Height: 34.41 in (87.4 cm)Width: 26.26 in (66.7 cm)
Medium:
Cardboard,Offset
Movement & Style:
Pop Art
Period:
Late 20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Cologne, DE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU134428000562

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