Tremble/Intrigue

细节

Alex Landrum (b. 1955)
Tremble/Intrigue
each: signed and dated 'A. Landrum 92' (on the stretcher)
household paint and cut-out letters on canvas, in two parts
each: 74 x 51in. (188 x 129.5cm.)
Executed in 1992

来源

Lisson Gallery, London.
Private Collection.

展览

Modena, Galleria Civica di Modena, Arte Inglese D'Oggi, 1995 (illustrated in colour, p. 44).

注意事项

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

荣誉呈献

Cristian Albu

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拍品专文

Subtle and quiet in its presence, Tremble/Intrigue is a large-scale work from 1992 by British artist Alex Landrum is a meditation on colour and language, visual and linguistic signification in contemporary culture. Using Dulux household paints on top of layers of eggshell on canvas, Landrum's paintings have a distinctly minimalist aesthetic, with only the faint outline of cut-out letters beneath the paint surface interrupting its smooth, matte appearance. In the present lot, the words 'TREMBLE' and 'INTRIGUE' are repeated over two canvases, a diptych whose title corresponds to the very Dulux colour used to create it. Oscillating between two schools of thought, the modernist belief that colour can inspire spiritual regeneration and the recent contemporary recognition that even colour can be corrupted by language, Tremble/Intrigue is a paradoxical object, demonstrating the discrepancy in these concepts as well as accommodating both ideas within its form.