PostWar & Contemporary Auktion: Samstag, 8. Dezember 2018, 14.00 Uhr

| 108 PostWar & Contemporary 3517* ANGELA DE LA CRUZ (A Coruna 1965 - lives and works in London) Super Clutter IV (blue and brown). 2005. Oil on canvas, metal and wood. 188 x 125 x 90 cm. Unique. With the artist‘s confirmation of authenticity. Provenance: - Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna. - Purchased from the above in 2005 by the present owner, since then private collection Italy. “One day I took the cross bar out and the painting bent. From that moment on, I looked at the painting as an object.” (Angela de la Cruz) Angela de la Cruz was born in A Coruña in Galicia in 1965. After studying philosophy in Santiago de Compostela, she moved to London and gave herself over to art. In 1994 she completed her studies with a BA at the renowned Goldsmiths College; she received her MA two years later in “Sculp- ture and Critical Theory” at the Slade School of Art. In 1998 she was commissi- oned to produce the painting “Larger than Life” for the ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall. After numerous exhibitions she took part in Manifest 5 in San Sebastián in 2004. For her exhibition “After” at Camden Arts Centre in 2010 she was nominated for the Turner Prize in the same year. In 2005 An- gela de la Cruz suffered a stroke and since then has been in a wheelchair. Angela de la Cruz makes paintings into sculptures or sculptures into paintings. In the tradition of Lucio Fontana, in her works she destroys the canvas and from it creates a sculpture, which, however, never loses its quality as a painting. She takes the canvas from the stretcher, breaks up the stretcher, reassembles it in some way, re-stretches the canvas and, since the framework has been “wrongly” assembled, the canvas loses its usual precision – it is no longer straight, is creased, and the entire work is no longer perpendicular. Alternatively, she hangs the loosened canvases on the wall, whereby the classic pictorial format is also lost, or she places the canvases over objects. In the series “Clutter”, fromwhich the present work comes, de la Cruz combines metal objects and aluminiumwith the canvas. These are works which were in her studio and had been forgotten. She combines them now and presents them using a metal object such as a box or a frame. The idea of a picture on a panel is entirely negated and yet we as viewers see a painting on the wall. Although it is three- dimensional and in no way reminiscent of a picture, we associate the painted canvas and its presentation on the wall with that of a painting. Angela de la Cruz plays powerfully with the concepts of painting and sculpture and causes the clear boundaries between the two genres to be blurred. CHF 12 000 / 18 000 (€ 10 430 / 15 650)