Rudolf stingel wiki

Rudolf stingel self-portrait

Rudolf Stingel was born in in Merano, Italy. Stingel grew up and attended high school in Vienna, Austria before moving to New York in Working in a wide manner that defies easy categorization, Stingel is best known for his continued investigations into the fundamental questions concerning painting today, including authenticity, time, memory, and perception.

Stingel was first recognized in the late s for his monochromatic, silvery paintings with undertones of red, yellow, and blue. Well-known for his interruptions of the space his work inhabits, Stingel first began experimenting with these interventions in when he installed a bright orange carpet at the Daniel Newberg Gallery in New York, leaving the walls blank.

Rudolf stingel carpet paintings

Through this act, Stingel asked viewers to consider the pictorial qualities of the architecture around them. Both carpet and the relationship between painting and space continued to play an important role in his work in the s, when in he began a series of monochromatic works of shag carpet cast in rubber compound, bronze, aluminum, and polyurethane.

Viewers were invited to participate by drawing and writing into the foam panels, creating intricately etched patterns which constantly evolved throughout the run of the exhibition. Since , Stingel has embarked on a series of photorealistic oil paintings of himself and others, including the art dealer Paula Cooper and the artist Pablo Picasso, based on photographs taken by other artists.

Executed in a gray-scale palette to mimic the black-and-white photographic sources, these paintings are a meditation of age, time, and representation.