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All auctions / Arts & Graphics / PAINTING "BATMAN IS NOW LOST" by Benjamin SPARK (1969) - Lot 152
PAINTING "BATMAN IS NOW LOST" by Benjamin SPARK (1969) Mixed media on canvas, signed and titled on the back. Painting depicting the 1966 Batman from "The Caped Crusader." Dimensions: 130 x 95 cm Good condition In the beginning, then, is Benjamin Spark, the hidden son who bursts onto the scene—already an adult—his mind and brush in a frenzy, a complete stranger yet strangely familiar. “The great artist is the one who wasn’t on the program,” as the critic and novelist Guy Scarpetta likes to point out. A son of Pop Art and Street Art, he embodies an unprecedented reconciliation between them—that of two cultures born of the street, one highbrow, the other lowbrow—an improbable yet inevitable encounter between two movements driven by opposing forces. He is undeniably a genre painter, drawn to the picturesque aspects of everyday life, but as seen through the eyes of a very specific category of individuals: superheroes, of whom he adopts a thoroughly Warholian conception, viewing their supreme power as the ability to make a lasting impression and penetrate every layer of consciousness; Consequently, Superman is just as valid as Mao, the Chanel logo, or John Lennon, and Spark adds to this list the idols of his generation: Basquiat, Daft Punk, and SpongeBob. Spark acknowledges: “Batman moves me deeply. He’s the only one without superpowers. To make up for that, he’s worked on his body and mind to achieve unity and harmony. And on top of that, he’s humble.” We can see the influence of Gudmundur ERRÓ, whom he met in 2011 at his Paris studio. Erro emphasizes: “Benjamin Spark is someone who really knows how to draw and who has also evolved a great deal. I’ve known him for only three years, but in my entire career—and I’m eighty-three years old!—he’s the only artist who’s come to my studio to explain to me how he works. Normally, painters keep their little secrets to themselves. But he explained everything to me—everything. The way he creates enlargements, the way he projects them like slides onto a screen—without hiding anything from me. It’s the first time in my life that I’ve been able to get inside an artist’s mind in this way. He came with his computer, and I had a feeling he was giving me a little glimpse of what tomorrow holds! We artists are always preoccupied with the future, with what comes next, but also with the idea that everything has already been done, that nothing more is possible—and so that future remains uncertain."
Estimate:£687.32
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Estimate:
£687.32
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