Hans-Peter Feldmann Two Girls with Shadow (2)

Hans-Peter Feldmann (1941-2023) Two Girls with Shadow (2) Black and white photographs, 2010, sheet 940 x 610mm (37 x 24in) (framed) Provenance: With Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Framed dimensions: 104 x 74cm *Please note an Artist's Resale Right royalty of up to 4% is payable on the hammer price of this lot. *VAT (currently 20%) is payable on the hammer price as well as the premium. This may be reclaimed if the buyer is VAT registered or the item is promptly exported outside of the EU. ***Hans-Peter Feldmann was a German conceptual artist renowned for his playful, understated explorations of everyday life, popular imagery and the role of photography in shaping our understanding of the world. Feldmann’s practice centred on collecting, organising and presenting existing images and commonplace objects. He frequently assembled photographs from magazines, newspapers, postcards and family albums, arranging them into books, sequences and installations. By appropriating and recontextualising visual material, he drew attention to the familiarity, repetition and cultural associations embedded within everyday imagery. Feldmann’s work is characterised by its apparent simplicity, subtle humour and visual curiosity. By making small interventions in familiar imagery, he challenges conventional ideas of artistic authorship and originality, demonstrating how the selection, alteration and presentation of existing material can transform the ordinary into something unexpectedly compelling. The present work Two Girls with Shadow exemplifies his interest in the manipulation and reinterpretation of found photographs. The composition features two girls, one of whom has been cut out of the original image, creating a striking visual intervention. This deliberate alteration disrupts the photograph’s apparent naturalism, drawing attention to the construction of images and the relationship between presence and absence. The shadow further complicates the composition, introducing questions about perception, representation and the traces left by human figures

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