Tomma Abts: ‘Untitled (Gap)’, 2015, color aquatint with spit bite aquatint and hard ground etching, signed and numbered, 29 1/2 × 22 3/4 in / 74.9 × 57.8 cm, edition of 20.Price upon request.
About the Artist
Tomma Abts, who was born in Kiel, Germany in 1967, has been based in London since 1995. In 2006 she received the Turner Prize awarded by the Tate Modern in London. She makes small-scale, hard-edged abstractions that are the result of a rigorous working method. Using no source material, Abts builds the surfaces slowly, defining line and shape on overlapping layers. While the images often seem on the verge of representation, through Abts’s use of flattened perspective and color combinations, they always veer toward abstraction. Each painting is measured to exactly the same dimensions, and her titles, such asIsko(2008) andTeite(2008), are drawn from a German dictionary of first names, emphasizing each painting’s individuality and imparting a deeper sense of history and narrative to the canvases. Her first solo exhibition in the United States was held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and traveled to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibition consisted of fifteen works painted from the turn of the millennium to 2008. Considering the time period in which the works were created, Abts speaks in an interview in a recent book, about her wish to seek the “art of the future” in the present. Tomma Abts creates her paintings and drawings using a rigorous process that combines the rational with the intuitive. Starting with no external source material and no preconceived idea of the final result, Abts makes complex abstract compositions that ultimately take as their subject the process of their own creation. Abts has had recent one-person exhibitions at Aspen Art Museum (2014); Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany (2006); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2005); and Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2005). Since 1999, she has had solo exhibitions in galleries in Berlin, Cologne, and London. Her work has been included in major international exhibitions such as the Berlin Biennial (2006), the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh (2004), and the Istanbul Biennial (2001) as well as a two-person exhibition with Vincent Fecteau at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2004).
Tomma Abts: ‘Untitled (Gap)’, 2015, color aquatint with spit bite aquatint and hard ground etching, signed and numbered, 29 1/2 × 22 3/4 in / 74.9 × 57.8 cm, edition of 20. Price upon request.
More Artworks by this Artist
Tomma Abts, Untitled (5 spots), 2009, Color sugar lift and spit bite aquatints with hard ground and flat bite etching.
Image size: 18 x 12⅞; paper size: 23⅛ x 17⅝. Edition 20.Price upon request.
Tomma Abts, Untitled (12 bits), 2009, Color soft ground etching with aquatint reversal and aquatint.18 x 12⅞”;23⅛ x 17⅝.20.Price upon request.
Tomma Abts: ‘Untitled”, 2013, colour lithograph in red, green and white / laid paperboard, 15 copies, signed, numbered and dated at the back side, 35 x 26,5 cm. The lithograph is Tomma Abt’s contribution to the portfolio: “Klasse Tomma Abts”, which contains 16 further prints by her students. Price EUR 2.400.-
Tomma Abts: ‘Untitled (Big Circle)’, 2015, clolor aquatint, signed and numbered, edition of 20, 22 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.Price upon request.
Tomma Abts: ‘Untitled”, 2015, b/w photocopy / board, edition of 100, signed and numbered on the back side, size: 29,7 x 21 cm. Price EUR 1.800.-
