Günther UECKER (né en 1930)

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Günther UECKER (né en 1930)
Wald (forrest), 1992 Branches, nails, cement, ashes and charcoal on panel. Signed, titled and dated "WALD Uecker'92'" on the back. Branches, nails, cement, ashes and charcoal on panel. Signed, titled and dated "WALD Uecker'92'" on the reverse. H_238 cm L_197 cm P_16 cm Provenance: - sale Christie's Amsterdam, 1 November 2016, lot n° 16 - acquired in this sale by the current owner - private collection "the tree grounded in the rooting network branching as it rises now fallen a piece a section no more than the open wound a feeling of sympathy prompts me to close the wound laying on my hands enclosing the pain with hammered nails that call to mind the crown of thorns" To realize this work Günther Uecker collects wood at different stages: cut branches, blackened coal and charred ash - punctuating the assembly on a monumental scale with twisted nails. Abandoning the grid discipline that characterized his previous work, the artist embraces the unpredictability of the natural world as well as the destructive impact of human intervention on it, translating this chaos into a configuration of nails driven at will. Each of them bent and twisted under an implacable force, their rough metallic shapes trap the fine branches that intertwine on the surface. Fine and attenuated growths extend into space, creating a moving and floating picture and the sensation of optical interaction so crucial to Uecker's work: "What is important to me is variability, capable of revealing the beauty of movement to us". G. Uecker, quoted in Gunther Uecker: Twenty Chapters, Berlin 2006, p. 34.
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