Curator’s selection from G III collection.

American, born 1931, California.

The Overlap Series: Street Scene and Reclining Person (with shoes)

2000

Color Digital Photographic prints with acrylic on sintra board

165,1 x 213,4 cm

Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice.

Initially a painter, Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his canvases in the mid-1960s. In 1970 he began working in printmaking, film, video, installation, sculpture and photography. He has created thousands of works that demonstrate—and, in many cases, combine—the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language within the boundaries of the work of art. His art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. His work influenced Cindy Sherman, David Salle, Annette Lemieux and Barbara Kruger among others.

Curator’s selection from G III collection.

British, born 1931, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Waldboden

1985

Loose plywood sheets and formica

285 x 350 cm

Tony Cragg is a British sculptor known for his exploration of unconventional materials, including plastic, fiberglass, bronze, and Kevlar. Craggs’ sculptures embody a frozen moment of movement, resulting in swirling abstractions, as seen in his work Point of View (2004). “I felt very free to use the plastic fragments I'd started using in '77 in new forms,” he reflected. “That was almost a kind of punk gesture at the time, a little bit aimed against the pieties of Land Art, Minimalism, or whatever.” Born Anthony Douglas Cragg on April 9, 1949 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, Cragg worked as a lab technician at the National Rubber Producers Research Association as young man before moving to Wuppertal, Germany in the late 1970s. An instructor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Cragg was awarded the Turner Prize in 1988 and a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2002. His works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others. Cragg currently lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany

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American, born 1945, Salt Lake City, UT.

Tokyo Santa edition of 6

1996/1999

Cibachrome

178 x 122 cm

He is an American contemporary artist working across media in performance, sculpture, and film. Inspired by American popular culture, sexual innuendo, and the work of Joseph Beuys, McCarthy constructs complicated critiques of consumerism and art. “I had this thing about exposing the interior of the body,” the artist has said, “the orifices leading into the body, and what the interior was, and the taboos of the interior.” His work aims to make his audience feel uncomfortable and often succeeds in stirring controversy, notably in 2014 when his sculpture Tree—a green inflatable that resembled a butt plug—was defaced and then removed within two days of its installation in Paris’ Place Vendôme. Among his recurring themes is the satirizing of the iconic male painter, as seen in his seminal video Painter (1995), which depicts a buffoonish, arrogant artist in the vein of Abstract Expressionism. Born on August 4, 1945 in Salt Lake City, UT, he went on to receive his MFA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., among others. McCarthy lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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American, born 1923, Washington.

Splatter Chair

1994

Formica and acrylic on wood, metal

140 x 140 cm

He was an American painter and sculptor whose celebrated career defied categorization. Associated at different times in his career with Pop, Optical, Minimalist, and Conceptual Art, Artschwager freely traversed classifications to create his unique blend of humorous, inventive work. “Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch,” he said about his practice. Among his best-known works is the witty Table and Chair (1963–1964), a pair of laminate-covered blocks that serve dually as representations of furniture and as functional objects.

Born on December 26, 1923 in Washington, D.C., Artschwager studied at Cornell University and was also mentored by pioneer of abstraction Amédée Ozenfant. He was wounded while serving in World War II, and initially painted abstract pictures that referenced his upbringing in New Mexico, but found much of his success with Minimal sculptures. Artschwager’s work has been the subject of numerous important exhibitions, such as at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The artist died on February 9, 2013, in Albany, NY at the age of 89.

Curator’s selection from G III collection.

German, born 1940, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

If I Can Dream

1994

Sculpture

122,3 x 121,2 x 14 cm

He is a German painter and sculptor known for his contributions to and shaping of 20th century Minimalist abstract art. Often working with large-scale modular shapes, Knoebel’s work is regarded as an ongoing, elliptical investigation into formalism and the medium of painting itself. Born in Dessau, Germany in 1930, he went on to study at the Darmstadt School of Arts and Crafts and then the famed Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he befriended Joseph Beuys and Blinky Palermo. Though his early work was often monochromatic, Knoebel became interested in the teachings of renowned colorist Johannes Itten, and much of his later work is characterized by its bright palette and strong color relationships. One of his best-known pieces, 24 Colors for Blinky (1977)—made in memoriam of his friend’s untimely death—consists of a irregularly shaped panels each painted in a specific, memorable hue, and is featured in the permanent collection of Dia:Beacon in upstate New York. Knoebel has been the subject of solo exhibitions at such institutions as the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. He lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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