Franz Ackermann - Contemporary Art Evening Sale New York Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Private collection, Miami

  • Catalogue Essay


    "What may on the surface appear as an abstraction inflected by certain constructive or architectural aspects is in reality a representation of “places”— in fact, of cities. The importance of the notion of place in German culture is well known: Heidegger, for example, in his reflection on the origins of being, made it a concept as fundamental as it is mysterious. The idea seduces Ackermann, too; in his work it takes the form of a strange mental mapping in which sensations, impressions, atmospheres, predictions, and prophecies are concretized into color, line, and volume. The paintings are often flanked by photographic fragments that, for a moment, lead the mind to a definite place, a fragment of reality that contrasts with the magmatic delirium of the painting, which, instead, deliberately brings to mind a non-place," (M. Meneguzzo, “Franz Ankermann,” Art Forum, April 2001).

20

Cowardly Assault

1999

Oil on canvas.

78 1/4 x 102 3/8 in. (198.8 x 260 cm).
Signed and dated “Franz Ackermann ‘99” on the reverse.

Estimate
$120,000 - 180,000 

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

4 Mar 2010
New York