Lot 69
Pulp, saw dust, glue and pigment.
D 1860 mm D 110 mm.
Verso signed and dated: Bosco, Berlin 2012. Verso inscribed on Studio Bosco Sodi label: Untitled, 2012, BS0199.
* | CHF | 55'000 / 75'000 |
* | EUR | 56'000 / 76'000 |
* | USD | 61'000 / 83'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 65'000
Provenance:
Studio Bosco Sodi, New York (verso with label);
Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid.
Swiss Private Property.
Exhibition:
Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid. Bosco Sodi, "Suspiro". 13 September - 1 November 2012.
Literature:
Exhibition catalogue. Bosco Sodi, "Suspiro". Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid 2012, illustration on page 11.
“l believe in embracing the accident, embracing no control. Letting the process of the organic materials take their course. Letting the passing of time shape each painting and each sculpture.” ¹
The material and chance-oriented aspect of his artistic practice, which Bosco Sodi addresses in the quotation above, becomes clear in the process of creating his works: the artist applies the organic material to the flatly laid-out canvas with his bare hands over the course of several days - and then relinquishes control over the work. After this layering, the material shapes its surface itself in interaction with climate and temperature, and over time gives rise to a relief of crusts, cracks, and furrows.
¹Bosco Sodi, in: "Bosco Sodi in conversation with Francesca Marcaccio Hitzeman", in XIBT Contemporary Art Magazin, Issue 1, January 2021.