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Christopher Wool (b. 1955)
Lot 46

Christopher Wool (b. 1955)

Untitled

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Christopher Wool (b. 1955)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Wool '89' (on the reverse)
alkyd on paper
101.5 x 66 cm.
Executed in 1989

Franz West, Vienna, who exchanged the work with Christopher Wool.
A gift from the above to the present owner.

Specialist note

'Christopher Wool's strategy as a painter is to plunge deeply into this culture, acting complicity with its essential tensions, in order to bring new intensities to the level of visibility. Rather than attempting to secure an autonomous space for painting apart from the vernacular culture of signs, he paints to encounter the culture from within it constraints. He insistently welcomes the impurities of cultural collision because they increase the potential of each paintings interaction within a political field, however narrow those parameters might prove for art.'
(Bruce W. Ferguson, 'Patterns of Intern', in: Artforum, No. 30, September 1991, p. 95)