Lot 192: Untitled

Gedi Sibony (b. 1973) Untitled carpet, tape, staples and acrylic on board, in two parts carpet: 86 5/8 x 67 in. (220 x 170 cm.) door: 79 7/8 x 29 7/8 in. (203 x 76 cm.) overall: 86 5/8 x 106 1/4 in. (220 x 270 cm.) Executed in 2009.

220 x 170 cm.

London, Saachti Gallery, Abstract America Today: New Painting and Sculpture, May 2009-January 2010. Brussels, Galerie Catherine Bastide & Dépendance, Galerie Catherine Bastide & Dépendance, November 2008-January 2009.

Booth-Clibborn Edition, History of the Saatchi Gallery, London, 2011, p. 761.

Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels Acquired from the above by the present owner

Juxtaposing a sheet of carpet and an unfitted door, Sibony's Untitled dissembles ideas of both architectural space and the self-conscious flatness of color-field painting. Recontextualized as formal devices, his common household furnishings are made alien and seductive, elevated from their functional familiarity to the status of pure aesthetic. As 'readymade paintings' they form a strange diptych, their cheap purpose-built textures become oddly possessing through their assertion of autonomy, creating a sense of the sublime through the ordinary fixtures of everyday life.