Lot 278: Harding Meyer *(born 1964 in Porto Alegre/Brazil)

Harding Meyer *(born 1964 in Porto Alegre/Brazil) Untitled, signed and dated on the reverse Harding M 2003, oil on canvas, 150 x 190 cm, stretched on a wooden frame, (PS)Provenance: Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf"Faces, nothing but virtual faces, directly before our eyes. None of them is made like the other. Built of several layers of paint over several weeks, they sometimes seem to have been created parallel to their real models. In other cases the top layer has been disfigured and roughened up with the spatula or blade in such a way that it comes to dislocations, blurrings, and obscurities that create an impregnable threshold of respect between the spectator and the picture." (Heinz-Norbert Jocks, "Zu den Arbeiten von Harding Meyer", in: Harding Meyer 2002-2005, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf)