Lot 123: JOSEPH KLIBANSKY

JOSEPH KLIBANSKY 1984 HIGH FLYERS Signed and dated 2010 ; signed, dated 01-01-2011 and numbered 7/7 on the reverse Digital mixed media, archival cotton paper, acrylic paint and resin mounted on Dibond 110 by 258 cm. The whole process of printing, proofing, mounting and resin is fully produced in the artist studio

Courtesy of Wanrooij Fine Art, Arnhem

Joseph Klibansky creates large-scale, idealistic digital paintings that are built up through hundreds of layers of photography enriched with acrylic paint on archival cotton paper overlaid with a liquid resin. His work conveys a layering and compression of time, space and place and constructs new narratives by creating dreamy images of cities. Klibansky combines past and future with a dramatic dynamism that to him becomes a way of signifying his perception of the rapidly changing digital culture as well as suggesting an unravelling of his personal biography.

Klibansky's main points of focus are architectural structures and the metropolis, particularly the accelerated, compressed and densely populated urban environments of the 21st Century that he smoothly grades into what seems to be a possible glimpse of the future.

High Flyers is one of the masterpieces of Klibansky's recent series New Urban Wonderland. It displays a saturated vision of urban existence in which the metropolitan landscape serves as musical equalizer that show the ups-and-downs of human life.