485 - Esther Stocker* (born 1974 in Schlanders)

Esther Stocker* (born 1974 in Schlanders) Geometric forms, 2015 from the portfolio Hommage to the Black Sqaure silkscreen/paper 35 x 35 cm signed Esther Stocker, dated 2015 inscribed EA, numbered VII/XVII SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 300 - 500 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 300 Esther Stocker (born 1974 in Schlanders/Silandro, Italy) is a prominent figure in contemporary geometric abstraction, working across painting, drawing, sculpture, spatial installation, and public art. Based in Vienna, the artist explores the relationship between order, space, structure, and perception in her work. Her artistic practice begins with a seemingly rigorous geometric system that is, however, constantly destabilized by deliberate deviations, shifts, and disruptions. Stocker’s work situates itself within the art-historical traditions of geometric abstraction, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, Concrete Art, Hard-Edge painting, and Op Art. Key points of comparison and reference include Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Josef Albers, Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, Jesús Rafael Soto, and François Morellet. While these artists explored geometric order, serial systems, and optical perception in various ways, Stocker shifts the focus to three-dimensional space, making the instability of the system itself the subject of her work. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.