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Alan Michael (b. 1967)
Untitled
signed, titled and dated 'Alan Michael 2006 Untitled' (on the overlap)
acrylic on canvas
40½ x 30½in. (103 x 77cm.)
Executed in 2006

Provenance

Hotel Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

Special notice

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.

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Lot Essay

Michaels aesthetic enquiries act not as documentation but rather as traces of cultural signifiersDepictions of glassware and windows fracture and reflect interior and exterior spaces. Arrangements of vases and bottles warp a wallpaper-like background of words from Glaswegian bands and pop singer blogs. Simultaneously, the still objects distort what is absent within the picture plane. The glasswares reflections encase images of windows and induce a disquieting reflexivity. (L. Figgis quoted in David Kordansky Gallery press release for Alan Michaels exhibition Decamp, 23 March-21 April 2007)

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