Rainer Fetting
Rainer Fetting
1949
2 Indians (Fetting und Castelli). 1982.
Dispersion on canvas.
Signed, dated, and titled “2 Indians” on the reverse of the canvas. 210 x 280 cm (82.6 x 110.2 in). [EH].
• Rainer Fetting: a driving force behind the “Neue Wilde” movement.
• Related: In 1982, Luciano Castelli and Rainer Fetting produced the Native American film “Room full of mirrors” on Lanzarote.
• As early as 1981, Rainer Fetting exhibited for the first time at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York.
• Exhibitions in London (Anthony d’Offay Gallery, 1981 and 1982), Paris (Yvon Lambert, 1983), and Milan (Studio d’arte Cannaviello, 1983) mark Rainer Fetting’s early international breakthrough.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the artist. It bears the work number “FF 133”.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Great Britain.
Private collection, Southern Germany (2013, Ketterer; in the family’s possession ever since).
EXHIBITION: Theo Waddington Fine Art (with a label on the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, München, Auktion 407, Nach 1945 - Zeitgenössische Kunst, 8.6.2013, Los 270 (m. Farbabb.).
"For Rainer Fetting, the primary concern is to achieve authenticity, whereby each work refers to the artist’s identity, his very specific individuality, his perceptions and sensations, right down to his gestural and visual impetus and his ability to communicate."
Jan Hoet, in: Fetting, Cologne 2009, p. 10
Rainer Fetting
1949
2 Indians (Fetting und Castelli). 1982.
Dispersion on canvas.
Signed, dated, and titled “2 Indians” on the reverse of the canvas. 210 x 280 cm (82.6 x 110.2 in). [EH].
• Rainer Fetting: a driving force behind the “Neue Wilde” movement.
• Related: In 1982, Luciano Castelli and Rainer Fetting produced the Native American film “Room full of mirrors” on Lanzarote.
• As early as 1981, Rainer Fetting exhibited for the first time at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York.
• Exhibitions in London (Anthony d’Offay Gallery, 1981 and 1982), Paris (Yvon Lambert, 1983), and Milan (Studio d’arte Cannaviello, 1983) mark Rainer Fetting’s early international breakthrough.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the artist. It bears the work number “FF 133”.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Great Britain.
Private collection, Southern Germany (2013, Ketterer; in the family’s possession ever since).
EXHIBITION: Theo Waddington Fine Art (with a label on the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, München, Auktion 407, Nach 1945 - Zeitgenössische Kunst, 8.6.2013, Los 270 (m. Farbabb.).
"For Rainer Fetting, the primary concern is to achieve authenticity, whereby each work refers to the artist’s identity, his very specific individuality, his perceptions and sensations, right down to his gestural and visual impetus and his ability to communicate."
Jan Hoet, in: Fetting, Cologne 2009, p. 10
