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Ian Anüll

The artist deliberately and explicitly dispenses with a signature style, thereby undermining the potential rise of a personal cult and ruling out the notion of artistic genius.

He draws and paints, he takes pictures, makes films and designs objects. Consumerism and the mass media provide the materials for his found pieces. He cleverly reinvents familiar signs and symbols, which are subtly alienated and transformed, surprising viewers with new levels of meaning. Anüll has long taken an interest in the systems and power structures that underlie marketing and mass consumption, undermining these with a variety of artistic devices. Through shifts in context, he also exposes the mechanisms of the art trade. He applies labels to his works of art and has even ironically appropriated the ubiquitous trademark symbol ® by declaring it to be his own registered trademark. Tellingly the R written backwards stands for “I” in Cyrillic script. —Axel Jablonski

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  • Ian Anüll, O.T., 2020

    digital print on Forex | edition of 22 + 8 AP, AP
    19.69 x 19.69 in (50 x 50 cm)

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  • Ian Anüll, Bild und Schokoladewelt, 2020

    chocolate on newsprint paper on canvas | 30 parts
    7.09 x 7.09 in (18 x 18 cm)

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  • Ian Anüll, Untitled, 2014

    chocolate on newspaper on canvas
    11.81 x 11.81 in (30 x 30 cm)

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  • Ian Anüll, o.T., 2011

    chocolate on newspaper on canvas
    9.84 x 9.84 in (25 x 25 cm)

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  • Ian Anüll, Take a Seat, 2011

    mask, rubber seat
    Dimensions Variables

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  • Ian Anüll, Rever, 2008

    silkscreen on fabric
    9.84 x 9.84 in (25 x 25 cm)

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  • Ian Anüll, Untitled (Copy Series), 2007

    silkscreen on canvas
    19.29 x 18.9 in (49 x 48 cm)

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  • Ian Anüll, Doppelproper, 2007

    newspaper mounted on canvas, screenprint
    22.05 x 25.98 in (56 x 66 cm)

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  • Ian Anüll, ® (Registered Trademark), 2001

    Acrylic on felt on wood
    16.14 x 16.54 in (41 x 42 cm)

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  • Ian Anüll, Untitled, 2000

    strawberry and collage on canvas
    5.51 x 5.51 in (14 x 14 cm)

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  • Ian Anüll, L'odeur et l'argent, 1999

    glass bottles, eau de Cologne, shredded bank notes
    7.87 x 11.81 in (20 x 30 cm)

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  • Ian Anüll, Style, 1995

    watercolor, graphite on paper
    12.6 x 9.06 in (32 x 23 cm)

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