Diamond (after I.B.)

Details

Johannes Wohnseifer (b. 1967)
Diamond (after I.B.)
signed and dated 'J. Wohnseifer 2005' (on the reverse)
acrylic on aluminium
55 1/8 x 39 3/8in. (140 x 100cm.)
Executed in 2005

Provenance

Casey Kaplan, New York.
Johann König, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.

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Lot Essay

Johannes Wohnseifer's Diamond (after I.B.) is painted with comic mysticism: its corporate logo a meditative fixation, accompanied by a haiku-like slogan. Humorously playing on spiritualism as a by-product of global enterprise, Wohnseifer's Diamond (after I.B.) places advertising as the new religious art, extolling the virtues of faceless powers. Glossy, smooth and surface-perfect, this paintings vacuous sentiment is replicated as echoing sublimity. Each work in this series has the same format: poster-sized paintings formalising subversive signs - themselves desirous commodities, loaded with philosophical meaning.

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