COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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ArtArtHiAAH~7~7
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0004111
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aahi0004111
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Work Title (display):
Dealer
Image Title:
front view
Work Dates (display):
2001
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2009-03-09
Work Creator (display):
Katharina Fritsch (German, born 1956)
Work Creator gender:
female
work_creator_or_agent_gender
female
Work Creator gender
false
Work Creator notes (display):
German installation artist and sculptor. Fritsch studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf from 1977 to 1984, where she first began to explore serial works and unusual sites. Fritsch's multiples and composite works are striking in their stark visual qualities and on spatial and material terms. Fritsch further complicates simple categories by exploring the location, circulation and facture of art. She works within the 'white cube' of the gallery as well as in public spaces, such as city squares, and in overlooked sites, such as the stairwells of public buildings. Within the gallery, Fritsch's objects remain resistant to the over-simplified logic of art, bearing overtones of mass-produced commodities and an uncanny quality of replication (see Black Table with Table Ware, 1985). One of her best-known pieces, Rat-King (19913), typifies the complex relationship between object, image, space and facture in Fritsch's work. Shown at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York, the piece consisted of a cast set of two-metre high black rats, arranged in a circle some 13 metres across. The scale of the work and its machine-made form are recognisable as part of the legacy of Minimalism, yet the 'fact' of the rats, like grossly over-sized links on a charm bracelet, sends a frisson through the viewer. The juxtaposition between the object, the repetitive image and the slick, manufactured quality of the polyester rats speaks more of Surrealism than of Minimalist sculpture. Seriality is crucial to Fritsch's work, and she uses repetition and replication to develop sophisticated plays of meaning. For example, in her 'display stand' works (all nearly three metres high), such as Display Stand with Madonnas (19879), the mass-produced multiples are arranged in rows and layers such that the display becomes both a showcase for the bright yellow Madonnas and a formidable, sculptural object in its entirety. Display Stand with Madonnas is a cylinder, Display Stand with Vases (19872001) is a pyramid and Display Stand with Brains (1989) is shaped like an hourglass. This play between the phenomenological presence of the sculptural object in the space of the gallery and the reference to the multiple image and commodified detritus of everyday life suggests that we are embedded in a world which mass-produces meaning, perception and, potentially, human interaction. Fritsch's figurative works are especially powerful in this context. In Company at a Table (1988), 32 identical male figures are seated at a table on long benches. Their faces are blank, clothes indistinct; like cogs in a wheel, their individuality has long since disappeared in favour of their uniform(ity). These 'uniforms' reappeared in Monk (1999), Doctor (1999) and Dealer (2001), where Fritsch produced extraordinarily life-like replicas of three men, characterized only by their clothing and title, confounding our expectation that 'portraiture' might lead to insights into individuality. These later works share with the earlier pieces an uncanny quality, an odd juxtaposition between the absolute presence of the object/image and its ineffability. (Marsha Meskimmon. "Fritsch, Katharina." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 17 Mar. 2009 .)
Work Style Period:
21st century
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21st century
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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false
Work Subject:
hooves (animal components)
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hooves (animal components)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
metaphors
subject
metaphors
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
emotions
subject
emotions
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
symbols
subject
symbols
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Satan
subject
Satan
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
color
subject
color
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
figures
subject
figures
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
red (color)
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red (color)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
body, human
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body, human
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
Work Worktype
false
Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
polyester, paint
Work Measurements (display):
75.25 in (H) x 15.75 in (W) x 23.25 in (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Collection of Kent and Vicki Logan
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Vail, Colorado
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
image_source_copy_from_print_name
Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-0-7148-4314-8
Image Source Reproduction page number:
255
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
254
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Matthew Marks Gallery
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Katharina Fritsch
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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