Can't You Take a Joke

Name: Damian Loeb (b. 1970)
Brand: Can't You Take a Joke
Price: 12000.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 15,000

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GBP 10,000 - GBP 15,000

Closed: 20 Sep 2018

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Damian Loeb (b. 1970)

Can't You Take a Joke

Price Realised GBP 15,000

Closed: 20 Sep 2018

Price Realised GBP 15,000

Closed: 20 Sep 2018

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Damian Loeb (b. 1970)
Can't You Take a Joke
signed, titled and dated '"CAN'T YOU TAKE A JOKE" Damian Loeb 12/04' (on the reverse)
oil on linen
96⅛ x 107⅞in. (244 x 274cm.)
Painted in 2004

Private Collection, London.
Private Collection, United Kingdom.

Ridgefield, Connecticut, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Damian Loeb: The Constructed Image, 1996-2005, 2006 (illustrated in colour on the exhibition reception invitation).

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Executed in 2004, is a monumental work from Damian Loeb’s virtuosic appropriation practice. Rejecting the term ‘photorealism’, the artist digitally manipulates photographic and cinematic sources, altering brightness and tone before reproducing the image in hyper-real painterly detail. In doing so, he aims to shed light on the relationship between memory and second-hand imagery in a media-saturated world. is based on a scene from John Carpenter’s 1978 film . Like many of Loeb’s sources, it represents a fleeting, non-descript moment that few would associate with the movie. The work was included in the artist’s solo show at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 2006.
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