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46 - Michel MAJERUS Ohne Titel, non dated Acrylic on cotton canva…
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Michel MAJERUS Ohne Titel, non dated Acrylic on cotton canvas 108 x 66.5 cm Acrylic on cotton 42.51 x 25.98 in. Provenance: Sale Ketterer Kunst, Munich, Auction 460: Contemporary Art 9 December 2017, lot 732 Acquired directly at the auction by the current owner This work is registered in the Archives of the Estate Michel Majerus A letter from the Michel Majerus Archives will be given to the buyer. We would like to thank Estate Michel Majerus for the information he kindly provided. "Majerus's production of images and visual environments in fact represents one of the few recent approaches to painting that cannot be understood in terms of a return to anything from the past. His art presented a particular novelty, not the 'originality of the avant-garde', which is certainly contested, but the ready-made novelty of the latest mobile phone graphics or Nike trainers just released. Majerus's art was about this novelty." Daniel Birnbaum FR In his short life, Michel Majerus developed a dazzling visual language, drawing freely on art history and popular culture to create works that often combined painting with large-scale installations. His complex and inventive pictorial universe, which reused canonical styles and genres alongside graphics from youth subcultures and the commercial mainstream, included quotations from artists such as de Kooning, Warhol and Basquiat, as well as song lyrics, brand logos, video games and cartoons. Majerus died in a plane crash in 2002, aged thirty-five. In the course of his brief but protean career, he embodied what art historian Daniel Birnbaum calls "painting in the expanded field", and his remarkable oeuvre, perhaps more than any other of his time, reflects the pre-formatted novelty and hybrid spaces of the information age. EN In his short life Michel Majerus developed a dazzling visual language, freely sampling from art history and popular culture in works that often combined painting with large-scale installations. His complex and inventive pictorial world, which redeployed canonized styles and genres alongside graphics from youth subcultures and the commercial mainstream, includes quotations from artists like de Kooning, Warhol, and Basquiat, as well as song lyrics, brand logos, video games, and cartoons. Majerus died in a plane crash in 2002 at the age of thirty-five. During his brief but protean career he exemplified what art historian Daniel Birnbaum calls "painting in the expanded field," and his remarkable oeuvre, perhaps more than any other of its time, reflects the prepackaged newness and hybrid spaces of the information age. Michel MAJERUS
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