LOT 175
DOMINIC SAMSWORTH (BRITISH 1987-) †§
POOL VII - 2015
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
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Contemporary Art | 787
Auction: 30 April 2024 at 10:00 BST
Description
Signed and dated '15 stretcher verso, pool paint on canvas
Dimensions
167cm x 297cm (65.75in x 117in)
Footnote
Samsworth, born in Wiltshire in 1987, is a graduate of the prestigious Glasgow School of Art and has spent part of his career in Berlin and New York. The artist expounds upon this body of work as follows: “They are shaped canvases based on plan views of swimming pools, painted with pool paint. Here, the status of painting and pool combined, executed with exacting lines, observing a blurring between art world sincerity and leisure time venality. They are aerially viewed as if just before touchdown in your next tourist destination.” On the one hand an aesthetically appealing piece of hard-edged abstraction, on the other a critique of hedonism and consumerism. Serious and playful, both representational and abstract, this work typifies Samsworth’s gently provocative and thoughtful output; lying somewhere between painting, sculpture and installation.