Lot 17: TOBY ZIEGLER (B. 1972) ...The grave is an altar... signed, titled and da

TOBY ZIEGLER (B. 1972) ...The grave is an altar... signed, titled and dated ’...The grave is an altar... Toby Ziegler 2009’ (on the overlap) oil on linen 117º x 83vin. (297.8 x 213cm.) Painted in 2009

EXHIBITED: Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Toby Ziegler, 2010. In a constant fuctuation between abstraction and fguration, British painter and sculptor Toby Ziegler uses computer technology to manipulate found images before recontextualising them within the vistas of multi-layered fat pattern. Found in art books and online, Ziegler’s source material ranges from clouds to nineteenth-century landscape painting. In …The grave is an altar…, the glimmer of a Romantic mountainous range is framed by a vortexed rocky overlay, which is fused with Ziegler’s signature dots, created using a computer software that projects the ovals onto a virtual plane. Pictorial space is illusionistically manifested by the interrelationship between these fat layers, and the uneven distribution of the ovals, as mapped-out by the computer software, demonstrates Ziegler’s fascination with chance and irregularity. Whilst taking us on a dreamlike journey through collaged imagery – one that combines synthetic modern textures with a faded memory of Old Master Painting – Ziegler examines the implications of the reproduced image and our inevitable reinterpretations.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin. Acquired from the above by the present owner.