What it feels like for an artwork (Blue)
2022
- Medium
- oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, LED panels, wood, media player, colour digital video, silent
- Measurements
- 172.5 × 202.0 cm (overall) 1 min, 49 sec
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Inscription
- inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.l.: WHAT IT FEELS LIKE / FOR AN ARTWORK
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.r.: P(…illeg.) 2022
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen and printed in ink on accompanying certificate of authenticity l.l.: Phi Ti (underlined) PARIS 29/06/22 (underlined) / Philipp Timischl Place, Date - Accession Number
- 2022.911
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Nigel Peck AM and Patricia Peck Fund, 2022
© Philipp Timischi and Layr, Vienna - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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What does it feel like to be an artwork, permanently on display and judged by an audience? Austrian artist Philipp Timischl poses this question with an abstract painting, animated with the addition of a LED screen that seamlessly combines with and acts as an extension to the work. On the screen text appears in classic movie-like subtitle fonts, through which the painting expresses its anxiety being on display. Through this playful personification, Timischl explores the relationship between subject and object and between viewer and artwork. He questions the power dynamics of viewing and those at play in the art world, including considering who has the power to dictate taste.
