Collage and oil on canvas, 2003 Signed and dated on reverse: 03 and numbered 47. Dimensions image ca 60*100 cm, frame ca 64,5*100,5 cm.
Provenance:
Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles/Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam.
Private collection, Netherlands
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Biography
Zipp studied with Thomas Bayrle at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and the University College London Slade School of Fine Art (The Slade) from 1992-1998. He often uses ash-white, granite gray and lots of black in his paintings, as if the work has been darkened in a back room over the past hundred years. In his work, Zipp plays the role of angry moralist, showing the sometimes disastrous and unintended outcomes of the wishes and goals of do-gooders like Martin Luther, prankster or ecstatic visionary artist, as in the 2007 solo exhibition “WHITE DADA” at the De Appel art center in Amsterdam. He is fascinated by madness, schizophrenia and the hallucinatory intoxication induced by drugs. He explores the gray zone where definitions of normality versus insanity are questioned. He does this with powerful images of paintings, sculptural busts, handwritten text scribbles and the hostile gaze of collage eyes on people’s faded features. Zipp is considered one of the most influential contemporary German artists. He lives and works in Berlin.
Information and quotes from:
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/arts/art-in-review-thomas-zipp.html (Roberta Smith)
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/mar/01/artist-week-thomas-zipp
https://www.dewitteraaf.be/artikel/thomas-zipp-in-venetie/
https://patricialow.com/artist/thomas-zipp/
