For its next (very) contemporary art auction on Wednesday, May 12th, 2021, PIASA is highlighting the work of renowned American painter Josh Smith.
Josh Smith is known for the aggressive, highly gestural paintings of his own name or more recently for more figurative paintings of fish, leaves, skeletons and insects. He uses dark colours with broad brushstrokes with no intention of representing a particular subject but to continue to explore the limits of abstraction. Josh Smith also incorporates images from his previous works into his work, which he constantly modifies.
In the proposed work, Untitled, 2005 Josh Smith has made successive collages of newspapers, drawings and posters. These cacophonous assemblages of motifs, signs and gestures are part of the same abstract pictorial research and question the hierarchical structure of meaning-making.
This work was exhibited at the Bastide Gallery in Brussels (2005) and works from this series have been shown at the Saatchi Gallery in London. His work is in many important collections such as: Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, USA; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA; De la Cruz Collection, Miami, USA; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria; Collection Pinault, Paris; The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, USA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; The Saatchi Gallery, London; The Warehouse, Dallas, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.
Josh Smith (born 1976)
Untitled, 2004
Estimate: 7 000 / 9 000 €
