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Art Subject: Toy
Public Note - Print by Vagaram Choudhary - 2024
Located in Roma, IT
"public Note" is a painting realized by Indian artist Vagaram Choudhary in 2024.
Painting Medium : Natural pigment on wasli paper
Painting backside Hand sign with years
Painting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Washi Paper, Pigment
$1,065 Sale Price
25% Off
Cornucopia - Wooden Sculpture by Ferdinando Codognotto - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Cornucopia is an original decorative object realized in the 2017s by Ferdinando Codognotto.
Original wood sculpture realized in swiss pine expe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$1,243 Sale Price
25% Off
Teddy Love Blue Cote d'Azur
Located in PARIS, FR
Pink mat resin sculpture.
33 x 28 x 15 cm.
Signed and numbered 1 out of 8 by the artist on the leg of the sculpture.
This artwork features a delicately crafted pink teddy bear hold...
Category
2010s Pop Art Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Stay On Target! by BATIK Oversize Limited Print
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Stay On Target!
by BATIK
BATIK is an increasingly collectable pop artist currently living and working in London. The artist is purposely elusive with their true identity, sex and a...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm)
- Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm)
- Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm)
PUR - Price Upon Request
--------------
Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide.
Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea.
Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.
In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.
Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.
------------------------
Rothmann's Robots
These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveler through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations, but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way, he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence.
In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypical and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylized, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents, and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their manufacture, and their features are in no way modeled on a concrete child's face.
In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future.
If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away.
Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys, and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights, and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures, and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly, since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. Successful computer and online games such as World
of Warcraft, or the creation of avatars are also interesting worldwide phenomena of virtual realities that are not only relevant for children and teens.
So when a middle-aged Berlin photographic artist (like Christian Rothmann) chooses to study 120 toy robots with great difference in form, it represents a journey back to his own childhood - even if at the time, he played with a steam engine rather than a robot. Once batteries had been inserted, some of the largely male or gender-neutral robots, could flash, shoot, turn around and even do more complicated things. Some can even still do it today - albeit clumsily. This, of course, can only be seen on film, but the artist intends to document that as well; to feature the robots in filmic works of art.
The positioning of the figures in the studio is the same as the tableau of pictures in the exhibition room. In this way, one could say Rothmann deploys one robot after the other. This systematic approach enables a comparative view; the extreme enlargement of what are actually small and manageable figures is like the macro vision of insects whose fascinating, sometimes monster-like appearance only becomes visible when they are blown up a hundredfold. The same thing goes for the robots; in miniature form, they seem harmless and cute, but if they were larger than humans and made noises to match, they would seem more threatening.
Some of the tin figures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Strong Man (Playful, Fun, Cirque du Soleil, The Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ann Rothman
Strong Man (Circus, Whimsical, Viola Frey, Delicate, Playful, Fun, Cirque du Soleil, The Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey)
2021
Porcelain, Low F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze, Crayon, Watercolor
Circa 1950 Original poster made by Hervé Morvan - Tahiti TAI French Airline
Located in PARIS, FR
Travel poster made around the 1950s by the famous poster artist Hervé Morvan 🇫🇷 (1917-1980) to promote the flights to Tahiti of TAI, a former French ai...
Category
1950s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Linen, Lithograph
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Marurn I
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Marurn I
The vases from are made of ceramic and glazed and fired in different ways. The black case is fired Rau and on the lid is printed batik stamp. Each lid has its own theme - t...
Category
2010s Minimalist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Textile
$414
"Teddy Bear (Blue Marine with Sparkles)" cast acrylic with sparkles sculpture
By Mara Sfara
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Teddy Bear (Blue Marine with Sparkles)" cast acrylic, hand polished sculpture with sparkles by artist Mara Sfara from an edition of 25. Signature Mara Sfara and edition number 2/25 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Lucite
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
1963 Alexander Calder 'Colored Wedge Structure'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This double-page lithograph, featuring a colored wedge structure, is printed on pages 17 and 18 of Derrière le Miroir (DLM) No. 141. The lithograph includes a fold line down the cent...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
1960 Original travel poster Air France to spain realized by Vernier
Located in PARIS, FR
Very beautiful poster Air France realized by Vernier in 1960 to promote its trips towards Spain.
Posters are essential to the communication of Air France. It is important to note th...
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Arlequin et Pierrette au Carnaval
By Nino Guiffrida
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Nino Guiffrida (Italian, born 1924)
Title: Arlequin et Pierrette au Carnaval
Year: 1985
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 24 x 19.75 inches
Signature: signed upper right...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage 90s Nostalgia Signed Numbered Print Set of 4 Spiderman Michael Jordan
By Adam Lister
Located in Draper, UT
Set of 4 Limited Prints Depicting A Supersoaker, Boombox, Spiderman, and Michael Jordan's Famous Fleer Card
Each sized at 8x10 inches
Each an Edition of 50
Archival giclee print
Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist
300 gsm hot press paper (matte finish)
Printed in Beacon, New York
Born in 1978, Adam Lister...
Category
2010s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Doll No. 1 "Pierre" (Edition 1/25)
Located in New York, NY
Doll No. 1 (Edition 1/25) "Pierre", Lucille Khornak, Color Photograph on Board with Acrylic Finish, 40 x 26, Late 20th Century
Colors: ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Mixed Media
Youth Sports in Fascist Italy - Vintage Photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Sports and Youngs in Fascist Italy is a vintage photo, realized in the 1930s .
Photo by Studio Gherlone.
Category
1930s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$248 Sale Price
25% Off
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm)
- Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm)
- Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm)
PUR - Price Upon Request
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Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide.
Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea.
Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.
In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.
Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.
------------------------------------------------------
Rothmann's Robots
These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveller through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations , but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence.
In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypcal and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylised, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing, and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their
manufacture, and their features are in no way modelled on a concrete child's face.
In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on
the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future.
If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away.
Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys; and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. Successful computer and online games such as World
of Warcraft, or the creation of avatars are also interesting worldwide phenomena of virtual realities that are not only relevant for children and teens.
So when a middle-aged Berlin photographic artist (like Christian Rothmann) chooses to study 120 toy robots with great difference in form, it represents a journey back to his own childhood - even if at the time, he played with a steam engine rather than a robot. Once batteries had been inserted, some of
the largely male or gender neutral robots, could flash, shoot, turn around and even do more complicated things. Some can even still do it today - albeit clumsily. This of course can only be seen on film, but the artist intends to document that as well; to feature the robots in filmic works of art.
The positioning of the figures in the studio is the same as the tableau of pictures in the exhibition room. In this way, one could say Rothmann deploys one robot after the other. This systematic approach enables a comparative view; the extreme enlargement of what are actually small and manageable figures is like the macro vision of insects whose fascinating, sometimes monster-like appearance only becomes visible when they are blown up a hundredfold. The same thing goes for the robots; in miniature form they seem harmless and cute, but if they were larger than humans and made noises to match, they
would seem more threatening.
Some of the tin figures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Tokion Neo Graffiti Project 3D
Located in Washington , DC, DC
comes with original box. numbered on bottom
Category
1990s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm)
- Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm)
- Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm)
PUR - Price Upon Request
--------------
Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide.
Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea.
Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.
In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.
Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.
------------------------
Rothmann's Robots
These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveler through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations, but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way, he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence.
In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypical and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylized, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents, and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their manufacture, and their features are in no way modeled on a concrete child's face.
In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future.
If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away.
Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys, and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights, and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures, and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly, since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. Successful computer and online games such as World
of Warcraft...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
The Key to Heart - Wooden Sculpture by F. Codognotto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
The Key is a wooden sculpture realized Ferdinando Codognotto in 2023.
Realized in swiss pine expertly carved in the shape of a key ending with a heart.
10x25 cm.
Carved signature...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$1,243 Sale Price
25% Off
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Futurist Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm)
- Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm)
- Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm)
PUR - Price Upon Request
--------------
Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide.
Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea.
Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.
In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.
Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.
------------------------
Rothmann's Robots
These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveler through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations, but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way, he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence.
In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypical and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylized, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents, and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their manufacture, and their features are in no way modeled on a concrete child's face.
In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future.
If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away.
Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys, and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights, and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures, and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly, since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. Successful computer and online games such as World
of Warcraft...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Photography
Materials
C Print
Keith Haring Andy Warhol Bearbrick 400% (Haring Warhol BE@RBRICK)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Andy Mouse Bearbrick: 400%:
A unique, timeless collectible trademarked & licensed by the Estate of Keith Haring. The partnered collectible reveals Keith Haring's 'Andy M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
Hopper
By Rachel Denny
Located in Bozeman, MT
Rachel Denny's work is an exploration of the seductive beauty of our natural world and the imprint that human intervention has made on its flora and fauna. Denny works in a variety o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$1,650
Vinyl Collection Grey Green Lilac Three Framed Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Heidler & Heeps Vinyl Collection Set of Three Framed Artworks.
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesm...
Category
2010s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Vendyle: Whatever's Closest When I Wake Up Becomes Breakfast
By Drue Langlois
Located in New York, NY
Fabric doll
7 x 3 x 2.5 inches
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fabric
Puppets of Verona II, Photography, Limited Edition, Cityscape, Street
Located in München, BY
Puppets of Verona II
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
A big puppet requisite for the performance in the Arena di Verona in Italy.
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the w...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Puppets of Verona II, Photography, Limited Edition, Cityscape, Street
Located in München, BY
Puppets of Verona II
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
A big puppet requisite for the performance in the Arena di Verona in Italy.
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the w...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Doll Head
Located in Astoria, NY
Corinna Holthusen (German, b. 1967), Doll Head, Chromogenic Print in Colors on Aluminum, 2001, signed, dated, and numbered edition "1/5" to the verso, unframed. 19.75" W x 15.75" W. ...
Category
Early 2000s Figurative Prints
Materials
Metal
Stay On Target! by BATIK- Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
'Stay On Target!'
By BATIK
Archival pigment pop art print of a Star Wars TIE fighter chasing actor Cary Grant from the infamous scene in Hitchcock’s N...
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Contemporary Porcelain Sculpture Poodle Purple Dog Animal Bethany Krull
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original hand built porcelain and paper sculpture by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull.
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"HELP YOURSELF BEFORE HELPING OTHERS", Painting, Yellow Life Jacket, Disaster
Located in Toronto, Ontario
From the Apathy Series, Andrew Smenos' recent body of work, comes "HELP YOURSELF BEFORE HELPING OTHERS" – an oil painting on canvas showing a yellow life...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"I Forgot I Have Friends", Figurative Ceramic Sculpture, Glaze, Abstracted
Located in St. Louis, MO
Kensuke Yamada (b. 1979) was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. He received his MFA from the University of Montana in 2009 and has a BA from The Evergreen State College, in Olympia,...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Leslie Hawk Sculptural Human Figure & Horse "Person on a Horse"
Located in Detroit, MI
"Person on a Horse" is a concrete, glass and steel structure with horse in mid-stride looking up and forward. The person astride leans forward as in encouragement to the stead or in weariness of the journey, perhaps both.
Leslie Hawk...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Steel
Ganesha, Acrylic on Fiber Glass, Red, Yellow by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By Om Swami
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Om Swami - Ganesha
Acrylic on Fiber Glass, H 22 x W 19 x D 10 inches
Born : 1974
Om Swami is a Mumbai based artist who has studied at the Raheja College. Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fiberglass, Acrylic
WHEN BALLOON DOG MEETS KEITH HARING DOG... LOVE HAPPENS
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE WORK: The love of the two iconic sculptures in pop culture by artist Michael Benisty.
TECHNIQUE: Mold - Cast - color metal pour with polished finish
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Alexander Calder derrière le miroir lithograph (Calder prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1964 from Derrière le miroir:
Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches.
Very good overall vintage condition; well-preserved.
Unsigned from an edition of unknown.
From: Derrière le miroir. Printed in France.
Derrière le miroir:
In October 1945 the French art dealer Aimé Maeght opens his art gallery at 13 Rue de Téhéran in Paris. His beginning coincides with the end of Second World War and the return of a number of exiled artists back to France. The publication was created in October 1946 (n°1) and published without interruption until 1982 (n°253).
Its original articles and illustrations (mainly original color lithographs by the gallery artists) who were famous at the time. The lithographic publication covered only the artists exhibited by Maeght gallery either through personal or group exhibitions.
Among them were, Pierre Alechinsky, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Alberto Giacometti, Vassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Saul Steinberg and Antoni Tapies.
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Alexander Calder was an American artist best known for his invention of the kinetic sculptures known as mobiles. Calder also produced a variety of two-dimensional artworks including lithographs, paintings, and tapestries as seen in his Butterfly (1970). “My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses, and movement,” the artist once said. Born on August 22, 1898 in Lawnton, PA, Calder turned to art in the 1920s, studying drawing and painting under George Luks and Boardman Robinson at the Art Students League in New York.
Calder moved to Paris to continue his studies in 1926, where he was introduced to the European avant-garde through performances of his Cirque Calder (1926–1931). “I was very fond of the spatial relations,” he said of his interest in the circus. “The whole thing of the—the vast space—I’ve always loved it.” With these performances, along with his wire sculptures, Calder attracted the attention of such notable figures as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Fernand Léger. Notably, it was his friend Duchamp that coined the term mobile—a pun in French meaning both “motion” and “motive”—during a visit to Calder’s Paris studio in 1931.
His earliest mobiles moved by motors, but Calder soon abandoned these mechanics and designed pieces that moved by air currents or human interaction. Over the course of seven decades, along with his mobiles, he also produced paintings, monumental outdoor sculptures, works on paper, domestic objects, and jewelry.
The artist lived in both Roxbury, CT, and Saché, France, before his death on November 11, 1976 in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Gallery in London. Related Categories Calder prints. Mid Century Modern. 1970s. Miro. Chagall. Calder lithograph. Figurative art. Alexander Calder Derrière...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled Sea wrack II, From the series Ser Cosa, Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled Sea wrack II, 2010 by Rodrigo Etem
From the series Ser Cosa
Archival pigment print on fine art paper
Size: 32 H x 24 W inches.
Edition of 7
Unframed
…this series of portra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Tie Only
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Since 1977, Larry Torno has worked in the graphic design business as a designer, art director, and creative director for companies large and small, from Fortune 500 to Not-for-Profit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
KAWS WHAT PARTY KAWS BFF (set of 2 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS WHAT PARTY White & Blue BFF Companion, set of 2 works:
This set features KAWS Companion vinyl sculpture with KAWS' CHUM character in a hunc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
Yuki the Young Yak Signed and Numbered Print
By Mark Ryden
Located in Draper, UT
Mark Ryden is a celebrated American artist who was born in 1963. He is known for his surreal, nostalgic, and at times, disturbing artwork. He draws inspiration from various sources, including pop culture, classical art, and fairy tales. Mark Ryden's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. His work is highly sought-after and revered by art collectors all over the world.
One of Mark Ryden's most recent works is a lithograph art print titled "Yuki the Young Yak...
Category
2010s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Pop Art Style Portrait of Madonna
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil on panel portrait of Madonna by Southern California artist, Gina Palmerin. Its dimensions are 24x24. It is unframed. A certificate of authenticit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mike Mitchell - Lucy - Contemporary Artist
Located in Asheville, NC
Mike Mitchell - Lucy - Contemporary Artist
Edition Details:
Year: 2020
Class: Art Print
Status: Official
Released: 07/03/20
Technique: Giclee
Paper: Cot...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée
"And They're Off!" (2023) By Dianne L Massey Dunbar, Original Oil Still-Life
Located in Denver, CO
"And They're Off!" (2023) by Dianne L Massey Dunbar is a playful oil painting that depicts a race between two toy cars. This piece measures 6 x 6 inches and 1...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Blossolini
Located in Nashville, TN
Blossolini explores the intricate relationship between artificial intelligence and humanity. The distorted figure presents a surreal and uncanny representation, possessing elements o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Lego (Blue), Pop Art Aquatint Etching with Gold Leaf by Matteo Negri
By Matteo Negri
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Matteo Negri, Italian (1982 - )
Title: Lego (Blue)
Year: 2009
Medium: Aquatint Etching with Gold Leaf, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: PA
Image Size: 23.5 x 23.5 ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Yellow Poppies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Shaped aluminum with yellow powder coat on polished aluminum base. Edition 21/25.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Mockingbird" Sculpture 40.5" x 19" x 18.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong
By Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"Mockingbird" Sculpture 42.5" x 19" x 18.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong
Bronze sculpture
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jiangxi Province. As one of the new generation of Chinese artists and part of the ‘post-80s generation’ and ‘only child’ generation, Huang is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of foreign culture in China, which he combines with his fascination with pottery and the material world. Huang is best known for his sculptures of Buddhas in hoodies, displaying an exchange of Eastern tradition and Western contemporary style. He was selected by “Complex” as “25 Contemporary Chinese Artists You Need to Know” in 2013. His sculptures have been exhibited at Niubi Newbie Kids II, at Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong; “Zeitgeist” Huang Yulong’s Solo Exhibition at Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Chinese Artist / Marseille Artist at Marseilles, France; The 4th International Contemporary Art Exhibition at Gwangju Biennale Korea, Art Beijing Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pop Art Style Portrait of Al Capone
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil and acrylic portrait of Al Capone by Southern California artist, Gina Palmerin. Its dimensions are 60x60. It is unframed...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Large Maxx Hermann C-Print, 59"W
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Maxx Hermann (b. 1955)
Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 1/ 5; 2007
Country of origin; materials: German; C-print
Dimensions...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
"RISING TIDES USED TO BE A GOOD THING", Painting, Oil on Canvas, Disaster, Humor
Located in Toronto, Ontario
From the Apathy Series, Andrew Smenos' recent body of work, comes "RISING TIDES USED TO BE A GOOD THING" – the life-jacket saving no one... At 20x20", th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Monster Truck" (2023) By Dianne L Massey Dunbar, Original Oil Still-Life
Located in Denver, CO
"And They're Off!" (2023) by Dianne L Massey Dunbar is a playful oil painting that depicts a toy monster truck. This piece measures 6 x 6 inches and 10 x 10 i...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board