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Artworks
El Lissitsky, Proun 49, ca. 1922
Yoyo (after El Lissitzky), 2021
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas55 1/4 x 44 in.
140.3 x 111.8 cmSoldFurther images
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'Yoyo (after El Lissitzky)' (2021) depicts the blocky body and spindly limbs of a yo-yo-er mid-trick. Caught in stride, the figure’s stick-legs and yo-yo string bisect the grove of a..."Yoyo (after El Lissitzky)" (2021) depicts the blocky body and spindly limbs of a yo-yo-er mid-trick. Caught in stride, the figure’s stick-legs and yo-yo string bisect the grove of a cement sidewalk, forming multiple points of intersection across the vertiginous composition. Larsen’s practice centers on paring down, understanding, and manipulating the spatial elements of narrative painting. "Yoyo" uses a non-objective composition by El Lissitzky, an important art-historical touchstone for Larsen, as a visual template. Building off El Lissitzky’s composition “Proun 3A” (ca. 1920), the painting utilizes the language of abstraction—rather than illusionism—as a means to access a more authentic form of representation. -
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