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Lot no. 518
Marwan Ohne Titel Tempera auf Leinwand. 195 x 130 cm. Gerahmt. Signiert 'Marwan'. Rückseitig auf dem Keilrahmen signiert und datiert 'Marwan Ok. 78'. Mit mündlicher Bestätigung des Künstlers, Berlin, vom 4.10.2013. Provenienz Privatbesitz, Deutschland Im Katalog zur Marwan-Ausstellung im Museum of Modern Art in Bagdad schreibt Jörn Merkert 1980 über die in den letzten Jahren entstandenen „Kopf-Bilder“: „Diese Steigerung [die Steigerung des künstlerischen Ansatzes, der auf die freie Farbe und die reine Malerei zielt] aber müssen wir auch begreifen als weiterführende geistige Überhöhung des Bildes, das sich Marwan vom Menschen macht. Dabei hat Marwan seine bildnerischen Mittel radikalisiert. Ganz nah ist er bei der Darstellung der Köpfe an das Gesicht herangegangen. […] Augen und Mund berühren häufig den Bildrand, die Überfülle und Übergröße des Dargestellten sprengt förmlich die Bildfläche. Die größere Nähe zum Gegenstand geht einher mit einer noch umfassenderen Auflösung, die der fast absolut gewordenen Abstraktion in der Handhabung der Farbe entspricht. Dabei ist nicht nur nichts von der formal-inhaltlich scheinbar verunklärenden Spontaneität des Farbvortrags aufgegeben sondern eher noch weiter getrieben. […] Läßt man sich auf eine ausdauernde, geduldige Zwiesprache mit diesen Bildern ein, kann man erleben, wie aus dem abstrakten, auf den ersten Blick pathetisch hinterfeuerten, bewegten Farbgefüge erst langsam das Gesicht hervortritt. Langsam geschieht das nur, ganz im scheinbaren Widerspruch zu dieser schnellen Malerei, und dann aber auch nur für einen Moment, der wie eine aufblitzende Erkenntnis der Sinne erfahren wird, bevor das eben noch klar gesehene Antlitz in einer sanften Bewegung in den Farbstrudel wieder wegtaucht.“ (Jörn Merkert, Marwan, Ausst.Kat. Museum of Modern Art Bagdad, Berlin 1980, S.53) Marwan Untitled Tempera on canvas. 195 x 130 cm. Framed. Signed 'Marwan'. Verso on stretcher frame signed and dated 'Marwan ok. 78'. With verbal confirmation from the artist, Berlin, on 4.10.2013. Provenance Private ownership, Germany Commenting on the “Head Paintings”, created in later years, Jörn Merkert wrote the following words in the Marwan Exhibition Catalogue of the Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad in 1980: “This increase [in the artistic approach whereby the artist aims to create free colour and a pure painting], however, must also be understood as a further-reaching spiritual exaltation of the image that Marwan had of man. Marwan added a radical element to his painterly resources. In his depiction of heads he took a very close view of each face. […] The eyes and the mouth often touch the edges of the painting, and the oversized proportions and excessive size of the depicted subject goes beyond the physical scope of the picture. This greater closeness to the subject is accompanied by an even further-reaching dissolution which - in the way that colours are handled- matches the level of abstraction that has become almost absolute. Yet at the same time, the artist has given up none of the obfuscating spontaneity of the paintbrush which seems to be evident in both form and content. Rather, he has taken it even further. […] If we agree to enter into a patient and persevering dialogue with these paintings, we can discern a face emerging very slowly from the abstract turbulence of those colours which, at first sight, appear to provide a solemn fired-up backdrop. This does indeed happen slowly, thus appearing to contradict the artist's fast-paced application of paint, but then it only does so for a brief while which comes to us as a sudden flash of sensory experience. A moment later the face - which we have just seen so clearly - very gently becomes submerged again within the maelstrom of colours. (Jörn Merkert, Marwan, exhib.cat., Museum of Modern Art Baghdad, Berlin 1980, p.53)
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Drawings, watercolours and pastels
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Art Contemporain I
50667 Köln - Germany
11/29/2014
Offered by Kunsthaus Lempertz
+49-(0)221-925729-0

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