Piecing Together the Order of Things
Loosely inspired by Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, this sale brings together a selection of artists who condense movements, references, ideas, needs and aspirations of the contemporary world. The Mnemosyne Atlas consists in 60 sheets with images that trace the survival of symbols and archetypes that migrate from antiquity. In it, Aby Warburg gathers all the objects of his research into a “mobile panel” device which is constantly mounted, dismounted, remounted. Just as the Mnemosyne, PTTOOT is conceived as an atlas of images that constitutes a work of reference for audiences and artists. It implies a worldview susceptible to putting itself back together again and again through the play of associations, changing the way we conceive the relationships of artworks between themselves and of all of them together facing historical development.
The sale has been designed to foster an understanding of some of the artists’ work and how their pieces can be considered from the point of view of an authentic method and even from a transverse – but not standardised – knowledge of the world. Piecing Together The Order of Things is likewise interested in “knowledge through montage” and the “spatial and temporal ‘migrations’ [Wanderungen]” of images — but also the migration of concepts, conversations, and practices that underpin their creation and reception as works of art. French philosopher Didi Huberman’s claims that the force of the atlas relies precisely in the idea that images, when assembled in a certain manner, offer us the opportunity to reinterpret the world.
By considering his argument, the layout of this sale abandons the standard 4-artworks-rows to showcase the art pieces in a net ramification display governed by an internal logic of images. The combination is made according to a key of imagination leap, repetitions, flippant typology of motifs, and visual similarity, providing different paths to read cultural codes. Piecing Together The Order of Things brings all of this together and offers it to the viewer, who is included and plays an essential role in the process of creating meanings.
Curated by Marco Galvan
Showing all 66 results
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Diego Palacios
Flu
Oil on canvas
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Jean-Vincent Simonet
Highway
Unique inkjet ultrachrome print on plastic foil mounted aluminium under plexiglass
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Attilio Esposito
The Reproductive Necessities of a King
Oil on canvas
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Elliott Chambers
Striped Van
Oil on canvas
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Attilio Esposito
Twist
Oil on canvas
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Chiayun Hu
Next To Me Is The Cliff And I Enjoy The View Very Much
Oil pastel on 200gsm cartridge paper
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Kevin Ford
French Finger
Acrylic on canvas mounted to board -
Elliott Chambers
Barn With Silo
Oil on canvas
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Ryan Crudgington
Untitled
Acrylic and oil stick on stretched canvas
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Jack Otis Evans
Pis Boy
Acrylic on paper
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Jean-Vincent Simonet
Highway
Unique inkjet ultrachrome print on plastic foil mounted aluminium under plexiglass
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Sondos Azzam
Happy Belated Birthday
Print on Hahnemühle paper
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Wei Tan
Abdomen
Mixed media on canvas -
Jack Otis Evans
Bird Painting
Acrylic on paper
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Elliott Chambers
Spearfisher
Oil on canvas
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Sondos Azzam
It’s All Sacrosanct
Print on Hahnemühle paper
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Jamie Kirk
Change of Pace
Acrylic on canvas
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Elliott Chambers
Barns
Oil on canvas
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Kevin Ford
Tulip Erasure
Acrylic on panel -
Jay Harper
Scowl
Oil on board
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Ryan Crudgington
Tom
Acrylic on wood panel
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Elliott Chambers
Rainbow
Oil on canvas
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Sondos Azzam
Chickup the Pickin’
Print on Hahnemühle paper
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Jamie Kirk
Cut Out
Acrylic, spray paint and ink on canvas
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Samson Shepheard-Walwyn
004A
Mixed media on board
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Elliott Chambers
Fox On Car
Oil on canvas
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Jamie Kirk
Gridlock
Acrylic, spray paint and ink on canvas
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Jack Otis Evans
Headache
Acrylic on paper
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Elliott Chambers
Mountain Bend
Oil on canvas
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James Connelly
Perpetual Breaths
Oil on canvas
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Elliott Chambers
Red Truck
Oil on canvas
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Jamie Kirk
Special Awareness
Acrylic and spray-paint on canvas
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James Connelly
Ficus McTight
Oil on canvas
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Sondos Azzam
Tea Party For No One
Print on Hahnemühle paper
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James Connelly
The Giant Robot Dog Was Awesome But It Didn’t Inspire Awe. The Sense Of Awe Came From Something Else. Something From Above
Oil on canvas
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Jay Harper
Content
Oil on board
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Jean-Vincent Simonet
NOVEMBRE Flowers #7
Unique inkjet ultrachrome print on plastic foil, washed and fixed
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Wei Tan
The Idiotic Manager
Mixed media on canvas -
Ryan Crudgington
Blue Man Group
Acrylic on stretched canvas
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Kevin Ford
Assorted Poppies
Acrylic and flashe on panel -
Jean-Vincent Simonet
In Bloom Flowers #1
Unique inkjet ultrachrome print on plastic foil, washed and fixed
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Samson Shepheard-Walwyn
You Should Have Made Your Bed
Acrylic on board
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Chiayun Hu
Bubble Bath Dream
Oil pastel and acrylic paint on 200gsm cartridge paper
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Attilio Esposito
Supposition
Oil on canvas
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James Connelly
Super Star
Oil on canvas
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Jean-Vincent Simonet
NOVEMBRE Flowers #12
Unique inkjet ultrachrome print on plastic foil, washed and fixed
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Chiayun Hu
Good Noise Bad Noise, Noise I Swallow
Acrylic paint on 200gsm cartridge paper
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Wei Tan
How to Stitch a Broken Canvas
Mixed media on canvas
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Jean-Vincent Simonet
NOVEMBRE Flowers #6
Unique inkjet ultrachrome print on plastic foil, washed and fixed
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Jay Harper
Distant
Oil on board
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Diego Palacios
The Secret
Oil on canvas
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Richard Yeung
Untitled
Oil on board
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Kevin Ford
Coldfingers
Acrylic on panel -
Ryan Crudgington
Death in a Movie, Death in a Painting
Acrylic and graphite on stretched canvas
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Diego Palacios
In the Room
Oil on canvas
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Jay Harper
Smoking Man
Oil on board
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Attilio Esposito
Have You Got a Lighter?
Oil on canvas
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Samson Shepheard-Walwyn
004G
Mixed media on board
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Samson Shepheard-Walwyn
Midnight Parking
Acrylic and encaustic on board
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Richard Yeung
Empty Pursuit
Digital painting
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Wei Tan
Important Things
Mixed media on canvas -
Chiayun Hu
Fire Soil Air
Oil pastel and acrylic paint on 200gsm cartridge paper
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Richard Yeung
Sea of Ice
Oil on canvas
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Jay Harper
Head in Hand
Oil on board
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Diego Palacios
Nightsnap
Oil on canvas
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Richard Yeung
Funeral
Oil on board
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