Alles Ist Schwindel (Everything is a Scam)

Name: Carla Busuttil (b. 1982)
Brand: Alles Ist Schwindel (Everything is a Scam)
Price: 1200.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 1,500

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Closed: 28 May 2020

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Carla Busuttil (b. 1982)

Alles Ist Schwindel (Everything is a Scam)

Price Realised GBP 1,500

Closed: 28 May 2020

Price Realised GBP 1,500

Closed: 28 May 2020

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Carla Busuttil (b. 1982)
Alles Ist Schwindel (Everything is a Scam)
oil on canvas
59 x 33¹⁄₂in. (150 x 85cm.)
Painted in 2008

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 2008.

St Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, Newspeak: British Art Now, 2009-2010. This exhibition later travelled to London, Saatchi Gallery.
Adelaide, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now, 2011, p. 46.

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Lot Essay

Celebrating the supremacy of painting, Carla Busuttil fills her canvases with energetically rendered figures, shaped primarily by the process of painting itself. Taking inspiration from photographs that she sees in newspapers and magazines, the subject of her paintings are often the larger-than-life people that seem to populate our celebrity obsessed conscious. These grotesque characters – grinning, bug-eyed ladies and urchin-like children with smeared faces – contain recognised features from these clipped images, yet also capture what Busuttil sees as the chaos and disorder of our time. Painted in 2008, was included in the Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, in 2009. Awarded the Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize that year, Busuttil has since exhibited at institutions including the Royal Academy of Art, London and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Her work will be featured in the upcoming book , to be published by Thames and Hudson in September 2020.