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March 8 will be an auction of Contemporary Art Phillips de Pury

At the auction will feature works of Sterling Ruby, Phil Frost, Johannes Kars, Andro Vekua and other contemporary artists
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STERLING RUBY

Impenetrable Wall Estimate: 50-70 thousand dollars
Source: artdaily.com

auction house Phillips de Pury is a compilation of the best lots of future auction of contemporary art" under the influence ", which will be held March 8, 2012.

At the auction will be the work of Sterling Ruby (Sterling Ruby) "Impenetrable Wall" (estimate 50-70 thousand dollars). Sterling Ruby - a brilliant representative of the younger generation of artists, who tries his hand at various genres - from sculptures and video to large-scale, graffiti-like paintings.

Ruby Jobs" impenetrable wall "refers to the subject of prisoners in maximum security prisons. Rampant in such establishments the atmosphere is related to the artist with the theme of the suppression of social organism every individual manifestations of personality, including artists who are beginning to be regarded as a crime.

It is worth noting the bright work of Phil Frost (Phil Frost) «loud whisper," (2004, estimate 30-40 thousand dollars). Frost - self-taught artist. He combines in his works, a modern urban culture, scenic abstraction, Aboriginal art and contemporary design. It creates murals, graffiti, collages, often including elements of these techniques in a single operation. white background on his work contrasts with the bright colors of ornament, woven from the "words" of some exotic language, which combines the letters figures, masks, dots and other objects and shapes.

Also at the auction will work Kars Johannes (Johannes Kahrs) «brutal act of love takes possession of Gileno Carlo" (1998, estimate 70-90 thousand dollars). In their extensive studies of Kars uses images of popular culture: movies, music, television and the news surrounding them with the cover of secrecy and providing train profound allusions. proposed work - a perfect example of a dark theater aesthetics of Kars. In this paper, we are talking about the murder of employee Fiat Gileno Carlo (Carlo Chiglieno) members of the leftist groups that have taken place in 1979. The product consists of three elements: the work is suspended directly above the projector, and the cassette recorder, standing on the floor beneath the painting, spinning Italian song with an ominous name of "dead hand".

Most other senses work is marked by an artist born in Sukhumi Vekua Andro (Andro Wekua) «Waiting for the shadows" (2007), estimated by the auction house at 25-35 thousand dollars. Vekua work is often there are images of Soviet Georgia of his childhood. His works are like a strange mosaic, which formed part of the history of home, nostalgia, the gap between East and West. Vekua works consist of painting and collage elements that create a rich emotional fabric of simple images, inspired by a personal biography .

Another noteworthy item - the work of Thomas Saraceno (Tomas Saraceno) «12 SE /Flying Garden /City Airport" (2007, estimate 10-15 thousand dollars). In the works This intricately woven Argentina's art, architecture, science and urban planning. Saraceno seeks inspiration in the subtle details of everyday life, such as soap bubbles and the spidery network, and turns them into tools that can change the very nature of human existence and interaction. This work - the project floating city composed of interconnected spherical and seteobraznyh forms. Flying the city, they are intended, shall cancel such conventions of today's world, as national boundaries and political boundaries and create conditions for free and peaceful dialogue and coexistence of different people.
Money from the sale of eight lots upcoming auction will go to the organization Friends of E.1027, which is engaged in the restoration of the modernist villa architect Eileen Gray (Eileen Gray), located in the town of Roquebrune in France. This group includes the works of Rosemary's lots Trokel (Rosemarie Trockel), Arman (Arman ), Leo Villareal (Leo Villareal), Peter Halley (Peter Halley), Erin O'Keefe (Erin O'Keefe), David Levintal (David Levinthal), William Copley (William Copley) and Wayne Gonzales (Wayne Gonzales).

Also at the auction will work Kimia Nawab (Kymia Nawabi), Aaron Curry (Aaron Curry), Frederick Kunat (Friedrich Kunath), Ryan McGuinness (Ryan Mcginness), Seth Price (Seth Price), Shtingelya Rudolph (Rudolf Stingel) and other contemporary authors.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru


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