Fumando espero, 2004
Print : Screen Print · 75 x 103 cm 29.5 x 40.6 inch
€1,280
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Print : numbered and limited to 99 copies
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed
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75 x 103 cm 29.5 x 40.6 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Fumando espero (I Wait, Smoking) is a screenprint of 2004 by the German artist Elvira Bach, enriched with adhered grains of carborundum and issued in an edition of 99 copies in a horizontal format of 103 x 75 cm. The title borrows that of a famous Spanish song of the 1920s about a woman waiting for her lover while smoking. Bach's heroine lies on her stomach across the whole width of the sheet, legs raised behind her, in a tight red dress whose dark folds sparkle with the carborundum grains; with a blank, self-assured stare, her orange hair falling over one eye, she holds up in one hand a red stick crowned with an orange spiral. Around her, a background of red and pink swirls, leaves and flowers fills the space with energy. The bold black contours, the flat, intense colour and the deliberately rough handling are typical of the artist. Elvira Bach (Neuenhain, Taunus, 1951) emerged in Berlin at the beginning of the 1980s among the Neue Wilde, the young German Neo-Expressionist painters, and took part in documenta 7 in 1982. Her work is centred on the figure of the self-confident, sensual woman, often accompanied by attributes such as cigarettes, snakes, cocktails or fruit. The impression is numbered at lower left and hand-signed in pencil at lower right.
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Born in 1951 in Neuenhain, Elvira Bach is a German painter. She lives and works in Berlin.
She studied glass at Staatlcihe Glasfachschule Hadamar and visual arts at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. She worked as a prop artist and prompter for the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer theater, for almost ten years.
In 1982, she was the first woman invited to participate at the Documenta de Kassel. During the same year, she joined the artist residency of Saint Dominique in Dominican Republic. A little later, she moved to Senegal for a while, where she got married and had two children.
In addition to painting and glass work, the artist also makes bronze sculptures in large formats.
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