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Helpp,
2020
Julia Wachtel
Print : paper
70 x 111.76 cm 27.6 x 44 inch
$1,849
One of the last works available by this artist
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Numbered and limited to 99 copies
1 copy available
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Hand-signed by artist
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Dimensions cm • inch
70 x 111.76 cm 27.6 x 44 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Not framed
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: France
This edition is based on the painting entitled, Helpp made by Julia Wachtel in 2018. By employing a variety of techniques, the print reproduces the painting by mirroring the multiple techniques used in the making of the original work. The left half was printed digitally and renders the image in a continuous tone echoing the oil painting, while the right half of the image is a four-color process screen print split into two discrete areas with different dot patterns and sizes, intentionally rendering the image out of focus as in the original painting. The image is printed in full bleed, giving it the presence of a discrete object.
Wachtel has dedicated her practice to the visual language of mass culture, often focused on the construction of emotion and identity. The imagery in the print depicts the recognizable Looney Tunes character, Wile E. Coyote, holding up a sign that says “Help", standing opposite a cartoonish face on a closely cropped torso of a woman wearing a tight tee shirt with two wide eyes and a gaping mouth. The call for help is abstracted from any causal context, destabilizing the possibility for one unique narrative. The artist titled the work Helpp with a second “P" to represent a feeling of helplessness she felt toward the burgeoning post truth landscape.
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Mining from the expanses of popular culture, Julia Wachtel is best known for paintings that actively unsettle our vast visual vocabulary. An ongoing format for her work involves repeating recognisable images into compositions which position the frivolous, the significant, and the non-descript in unprioritised succession. In Untitled (Body Builder) (1989) a screen-printed image of a teenage man flexing his muscles is doubled and butted up against a hand-painted but equally appropriated image of a geeky greetings card character waving to us. With his androgynous face, patched trousers, rubbish dump hair and elongated shoes he's an approachable clown, offering an open-ended juxtaposition to the Nike clad body builder. More recently, Wachtel has almost exclusively used imagery drawn from the internet, and repeatedly turned to representations used in advertising and the media, in what the artist describes as acts of “reclamation."
She has had solo exhibitions at Cleveland Museum of Art, Bergen Kunsthall, Centre d'Art Contemporain in Troyes, and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Saatchi Gallery in London, Migros Museum in Zurich, London's Institute for Contemporary Art, The Artist's Institute in London, the Louvre, the Whitney, PS1, the Brooklyn Museum, and FRAC Poîtou-Charentes in Angoulême, among many other institutions.
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