Ian Anüll
The artist deliberately and explicitly dispenses with a signature style, thereby undermining the potential rise of a personal cult and ruling out the notion of artistic genius.
He draws and paints, he takes pictures, makes films and designs objects. Consumerism and the mass media provide the materials for his found pieces. He cleverly reinvents familiar signs and symbols, which are subtly alienated and transformed, surprising viewers with new levels of meaning. Anüll has long taken an interest in the systems and power structures that underlie marketing and mass consumption, undermining these with a variety of artistic devices. Through shifts in context, he also exposes the mechanisms of the art trade. He applies labels to his works of art and has even ironically appropriated the ubiquitous trademark symbol ® by declaring it to be his own registered trademark. Tellingly the R written backwards stands for “I” in Cyrillic script. —Axel Jablonski
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digital print on canvas
51.18 x 49.21 in (130 x 125 cm) -
chocolate on newspaper on canvas
11.81 x 11.81 in (30 x 30 cm) -
acrylic on newspaper on canvas | 5'000.00 EUR
9.84 x 9.84 in (25 x 25 cm) -
acrylic on wood
37.01 x 12.6 in (94 x 32 cm) -
mixed media on canvas
24.8 x 9.45 in (63 x 24 cm) -
newspaper mounted on canvas, screenprint
22.05 x 25.98 in (56 x 66 cm) -
silkscreen on canvas
19.29 x 18.9 in (49 x 48 cm) -
installation, inkjet print on fabric, wood, Plexiglass, acrylic on stones
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strawberry and collage on canvas
5.51 x 5.51 in (14 x 14 cm) -
strawberry and collage on canvas
5.51 x 5.51 in (14 x 14 cm) -
glass bottles, eau de Cologne, shredded bank notes
7.87 x 11.81 in (20 x 30 cm) -
room installation, various materials, 11 parts
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