City of the Weak Heart

Name: Tillman Kaiser (b. 1972)
Brand: City of the Weak Heart
Price: 1800.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 2,250

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Closed: 28 May 2020

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Tillman Kaiser (b. 1972)

City of the Weak Heart

Price Realised GBP 2,250

Closed: 28 May 2020

Price Realised GBP 2,250

Closed: 28 May 2020

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Tillman Kaiser (b. 1972)
City of the Weak Heart
signed and dated ‘20 07 TILLMAN KAISER’ (centre); titled ‘CITY OF THE WEAK HEART’ (on a label, upper centre); signed, titled, inscibed and dated 'Tillman Kaiser 2007 I am Government for myself / City of the weak Heart / Poor people must work' (on the stretcher)
silkscreen, egg tempera, acrylic, pencil and printed paper on canvas
78³⁄₄ x 118¹⁄₈in. (200 x 300cm.)
Executed in 2007

Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.

London, Saatchi Gallery, Kaleidoscope, 2019.

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Lot Essay

Born and based in Austria, Tillman Kaiser is a painter and sculptor who plays with abstraction and found materials. As a student of Friedensreich Hundertwasser at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts in the 1990s, he drew inspiration from Surrealism, admiring the work of Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte. His practice is concerned with the relationship between conscious and subconscious processes, layering images and forms with a particular focus on rhythm, symmetry and syncopation. Included in the Saatchi Gallery’s 2019 exhibition , the present work is an example of his early silkscreens, using images of characters from Nigerian soap operas arranged into swirling abstract patterns. ‘It is all quite chaotic, like images popping up in a dream’, explains the artist. Kaiser has exhibited widely throughout Europe, mounting solo shows at the Museo Canonica at the Villa Borghese, Rome in 2016, and the Secession, Vienna last year.