Sigmar Polke – Tisch mit umgekippter Kanne I, 1970 – Screen-print

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Screenprint in colors, on board, the full sheet, S. 23 1/4 x 23 1/4 in. (59.1 x 59.1 cm) - signed, dated `70' (the edition was 100 and 20 artist's proofs), published by Cooperative Edition Hamburg, unframed.

Sigmar Polke's Tisch mit umgekippter Kanne I (1970) is a screen-print that plays with perception and abstraction. The image depicts a simple scene—a tipped-over white jug spilling a red, geometric liquid—on a dark table, rendered in a photorealistic yet surreal style. Polke combines photographic realism with graphic elements, transforming the liquid into a flat, unnatural shape that contrasts sharply with the otherwise realistic setting. This juxtaposition disrupts the viewer’s expectation, creating a playful commentary on the nature of representation and reality, typical of Polke’s experimental approach in the 1970s.

Sigmar Polke (Germany, 1941–2010) was a groundbreaking artist known for blending painting, photography, and printmaking. A co-founder of the 'Capitalist Realism' movement, his works critiqued consumerism and cultural norms with wit and experimental techniques, often incorporating unconventional materials. Polke's layered, multi-faceted style remains influential in contemporary art.

Sigmar Polke

Tisch mit umgekippter Kanne I, 1970

Form

Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition PrintA limited edition print is one of a number of prints made at the same time from one printmaking plate. A fixed number are made and signed by the artist, indicating the printing order, using the format 1/10, meaning first of ten prints.

Medium

Screen-print

Screen-printScreen printing is a technique where ink is transferred through a mesh onto a substrate, with areas blocked by a stencil to prevent ink from passing through. This method, also known as serigraphy or silkscreen printing, is commonly used to produce prints on posters, T-shirts, vinyl, stickers, wood, and other materials. The process is a type of stencil printing, allowing for vibrant, detailed designs on various surfaces.

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Edition of 100

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What interests me is the unforeseeable.
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Highly acclaimed for his persistent use of unorthodox materials and his experiment across a wide range of styles and subject matters, Sigmar Polke was a painter and photographer as well as a founding member of the Capitalist Realism painting movement. Among Polke's most acclaimed paintings is Bunnies, a piece that uses the ‘dot’ technique popularised by Pop Artists such as Lichtenstein; succinctly showcasing Polke’s wry sense of irony, this painting on first appearances seems to depict an attractive group of women dressed provocatively in the style of Playboy bunnies, but upon closer inspection the faces of the women are grotesquely distorted by a set of coloured circles. Polke began to use a range of alchemical materials in his paintings throughout the 80’s - meteor dust, smoke, a mucous produced by snails, as well as varnishes and resins are among the properties he would mix with paint to create spontaneous chemical reactions, resulting in Abstract Expressionist pieces.

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Sigmar Polke

Tisch mit umgekippter Kanne I, 1970

59.3 x 59.3 cm

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