Artwork details

Artist

Title

Last Act, Last Word, Last Thought (State II)

Description

A limited edition triptych serigraph in two states. Revisiting themes that have recurred throughout the artist's career, and celebrating subtlety and impermanence, these prints continue Kaltenbach's trailblazing work as a founding member of the tradition of American conceptual art.

Published by BGFA and Another Year in LA, printed at Modern Multiples / Big Brother, Los Angeles.

State II is printed with a single pass of a gloss varnish, allowing the image of the words to appear and disappear depending on the lighting and your point of view.

Last Act, Last Word, Last Thought (State II)
1 color (gloss varnish) Serigraph on Black Stonehenge 250gsm
Edition of 10
15 x 20"
2020
Signed on reverse lower right, numbered on reverse lower left

Date

2020

Medium

Serigraph

Edition

Signature

Signed

Image

15 x 20 inches

Sheet

15 x 20 inches

Status

Available

Price

$2,500.00

Stephen Kaltenbach

Kaltenbach was first active in New York during the 1960s and from 1970 to the present in Northern California. The post-minimal conceptual art he produced then and now is receiving renewed international attention. His years as a member of the New York scene in the 1960s placed him at the forefront in the formation of a new, idea-based type of art making that was later formalized as Conceptual Art. At the time, the wide variety of experimental approaches could not be properly called a stylistic movement, but gave artists freedom to work in styles and media that were not previously understood to be art. Kaltenbach left New York in 1970, returning to Northern California, where he taught (and operated under the art world radar) continuing to make art using a variety of conceptual strategies in a secret 40 year project revealed by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer in the September 2010 issue of Artforum.