Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)
Lot 591 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION


Kippenberger illustrates an example of letting work tell you what its about rather than the other way around, while at the same time being fully committed to everything you release. He showed me that redundancy can be an image, or an object, or an ideologys most useful quality (...) he showed that being socially committed does not necessarily mean that you have to feel smug or like a good guy. He shows that letting dissidence have dissonance is as powerful as anything overtly political.
Lucy McKenzie, Now That This Has Been Done It Will Never Have To Be Done Again.Nach Kippenberger (Vienna: Schlebrugge Editor, 2003) pp. 191-5

Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)

Kühlschrank

Closed2 April 2008

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GBP 34,100

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Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)
Kühlschrank
oil and pencil on canvas
31½ x 39 3/8in. (80 x 100cm.)
Executed circa 1980-81

A gift from the artist to the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is based on a photograph taken by Kippenberger of Jochen Krüger.