South of Heaven

Name: Alastair Mackinven (B. 1971)
Brand: South of Heaven
Price: 1600.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 2,000

Estimate

GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,000

Closed: 28 Mar 2019

Loading details

Try our

Alastair Mackinven (B. 1971)

South of Heaven

Price Realised GBP 2,000

Closed: 28 Mar 2019

Price Realised GBP 2,000

Closed: 28 Mar 2019

Details Lot Essay Related Articles More from

Alastair Mackinven (B. 1971)
South of Heaven
titled 'SOUTH OF HEAVEN' (on the turnover edge)
oil, acrylic, spray paint and screenprint on canvas
86⅝ x 63in. (220 x 160cm.)
Executed in 2009

Hotel Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.

London, Hotel Gallery, Alastair Mackinven: Abstract Capitalist Realism, 2009.
St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, Newspeak, British Art Now, 2010-2011 (illustrated in colour, p. 183). This exhibition later travelled to London, Saatchi Gallery.

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
VAT rate of 20% is payable on hammer price and buyer's premium
-

Conditions of Sale
FAQs
This lot is offered by Christie Manson & Woods Ltd

Brought to you by

Stefano Amoretti

A Christie's specialist may contact you to discuss this lot or to notify you if the condition changes prior to the sale.

samoretti@christies.com +44 (0)20 7752 3323

Lot Essay

‘The one true reality under capitalism is paying to live,’ says Alastair MacKinven, ‘and that is the harshest reality, which forces one to do all kinds of horrors, like paint for example.’ MacKinven’s abstract canvases form a critical language with which to deconstruct ideas of power and worth within the art system – the role of the artist, how art is displayed and mediated to the viewer by galleries, and how art is transacted through the market and mass mediais part of a series titled Abstract Capitalist Realism: a reference to the German Capitalist Realist movement, spearheaded by Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke during the 1960s, which sought to parody Pop Art’s commodity fetishism. MacKinven directly examines the interplay between art and economics: the ornamental motifs repeated throughout these works are taken from the data protection patterns that line the envelopes of his utility bills and bank statements. MacKinven sardonically appropriates the genre of decorative painting in order to expose the dilemma of artists striving for creative integrity while entangled with the practical realities of the art economy.

Post Lot Text
Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot. You must pay us an extra amount equal to the resale royalty and we will pay the royalty to the appropriate authority. Please see the Conditions of Sale for further information.
This lot will be subject to VAT of 20% on both the hammer price and buyer’s premium. Please see Conditions of Sale for further information.