Rob Scholte - Limited edition (125) Silkscreen - Polkadot - pencil signed - Sold
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- Description
- Rob Scholte (1958)
| Type of artwork | Prints (signed) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Technique | Silkscreen |
| Support | Paper |
| Style | Modern |
| Framed | Not framed |
| Dimensions | 50 x 66 cm (h x w) |
| Signed | Hand signed |
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- Large screen print on high-quality BFK Rives paper "Polkadot". Made by Rob Scholte in 1993 in an edition of 125 copies. Signed and dated in pencil lower right, numbered lower left. Loose-leaf - in very good condition.
Rob Scholte
Anything goes, there is no single truth, authenticity is an illusion and nothing is unique. The motto of the 80s is taken to the extreme by Rob Scholte (Amsterdam, 1958).
He believes that originality does not exist. In many of his paintings, he paints, in his typical precise and realistic style, existing images from advertising and media. Scholte throws traditional ideas within painting overboard, his painted copyright sign – a copyright of copyright – testifies to that.
Scholte takes on our ideas about what is real, unique and authentic. The catalogue for his solo exhibition How to Star, which took place in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in 1988, is a good example of this. The book is entirely composed of quotes about Scholte that have previously appeared in newspapers, magazines and books.
Scholte's Utopia (1986), a nude in the form of a wooden doll, lying on a sofa, is also postmodern and eclectic. It is a clear stylistic quotation from Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538) and the Olympia (1863) by Manet, which is derived from it. Scholte: "I assemble and clone. Just call me the Mengele of painting."
Scholte studied at the Minerva Academy in Groningen (1975) and at the Vrije Academie in The Hague (1976) before choosing the audiovisual direction at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (1977-1981). Scholte's work was shown at the São Paolo Biennale, Documenta 8 and the Venice Biennale, respectively in 1985, 1987 and 1990.
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