Matchstick Star (Pink Edition)

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Weight1 kg
Edition size :

35

Dimensions :

85 cm x 60 cm (33.46 in. x 23.62 in.)

Paper :

BFK Rives 270 g.

Technique :

3-color lithograph printed with Marinoni lithographic press, hand cut.

Signature :

Signed by the artist, numbered, stamped by our publishing house.

Co-edition :

with Ruttkowski;68

Year :

2020

Price :

CHF 950 (≈ $1'020, exclusive of VAT, applies to countries outside Switzerland)

Collection :

Lithographs

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“Matchstick Star” by Thomas Wachholz is a 3-color limited edition lithograph produced by JRP|Next, in collaboration with Ruttkowski;68 gallery. For the creation of his lithographs, the artist drew inspiration from his collection of matchboxes. The motif of the exploding matchstick, creating a graphic star pattern specific to the comic book style, was appropriated for the packaging of these consumer goods. Wachholz explores the interaction between this graphic visual language and the codes of painting specific to pop art.

Over the past years, the artist has already revisited the interpretation of cultural artifacts and everyday objects, such as the matchbox and matchbooks that he collected from restaurants, hotels, gas stations, cinemas and clubs. His works are characterized by using bright colors, geometric figures and plane textures influenced by Geometrical Abstraction and Pop images. He decodes the matchstick and the star into minimal shapes, creating, in this way, playful contrast between colors, sharp and rounded forms.

Weight1 kg
Edition size :

35

Dimensions :

85 cm x 60 cm (33.46 in. x 23.62 in.)

Paper :

BFK Rives 270 g.

Technique :

3-color lithograph printed with Marinoni lithographic press, hand cut.

Signature :

Signed by the artist, numbered, stamped by our publishing house.

Co-edition :

with Ruttkowski;68

Year :

2020

Price :

CHF 950 (≈ $1'020, exclusive of VAT, applies to countries outside Switzerland)

Collection :

Lithographs

Price :

No prices available for the moment

(PDF not available)

 

Thomas Wachholz

Born in Germany in 1984, Wachholz studied under Katharina Grosse and Marcel Odenbach at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.

 

In his work Wachholz examines the frameworks of specific industrial aesthetics on both a conceptual and a painterly level. For instance, matchbox layouts become motifs in his paintings that are defined in terms of various aspects of a historical-painterly evolution. In establishing the idea of a Conceptual Pop, as well as following the conceptual explorations of Blinky Palermo or Kenneth Noland, the artist playfully examines the limits and rules of painting. Having thus invalidated the mere assertion of the banality of everyday life, the artist focuses on intimate memories that could be universally associated with the boxes. The formal aesthetic rigor and reduction in no way diminish the poetry and charm arising from these paintings. The associated structures also provide insights into visual worlds that enable and even require original thought. The artist succeeds in intertwining theory with a smile, both as a spatial construct and a painterly indispensability. In his most recent works, Wachholz intensifies the mechanisms of painterly abstraction. In doing so, the paintings are deliberately distanced from their legible pre-figuration. The results are figures and color variations whose underlying principles, such as communication levels between readers, establish a complex semiotics.

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