Fiona Rae, Untitled (fig.10), 1997

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Oil & acrylic on canvas

20.3 x 25.4 cm

Counted among the Young British Artists (YBA), Hong Kong born Fiona Rae’s paintings incarnate an abstract-pop universe, filled with references to modern and contemporary painting, pop culture, and digital technology. Her abstract paintings make bold use of juxtaposition, both formal and thematic. Rae combines contrasting painting styles on the same canvas and renders often kitschy images with formal techniques such as impasto, resulting in works that are at once fanciful and serious, enchanting and slightly menacing. The paintings are improvised directly onto the canvas, establishing painterly and semiotic codes within which each visual element has an equal importance and significance in an inclusive and democratic fictive space.

Provenance

Waddington Galleries, London
Acquired from the above by the previous owner in 1997
Lot 36, Contemporary Art Online, Sotheby’s London, 22 August 2019
Private Collection, UK; acquired from above
Dellasposa Gallery, 2021

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