Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art
Lot Closed
October 6, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
EMIL LUKAS
b. 1964
SOFT TISSUE
signed, titled, dated 2013 and numbered 1258 on the turning edge; signed, titled, dated 2013 and numbered 1258 on the reverse
thread over painted wood with paint and nails
27 by 24 by 3½ in. (68.6 by 60.9 by 8.9 cm.)
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
“The accumulation of threads and what they achieve visually, and how the viewer can perceive that accumulation, leads to a really remarkable experience. When you’re up close to those works, you can see that there are thousands of threads in seemingly dozens of colors, and the work is extremely colorful and quite bright. Then if you walk away from the painting, it goes from bright and colorful to a little bit monochromatic to black and white, and that is so hard to understand. But it is that accumulation and distance… The interaction of those two things creates this remarkable physical effect, or perceptual effect, I guess I should say.”
Harry Philbrick in Exh. Cat., New York, Sperone Westwater, Emil Lukas, January – February 2019, p. 13