Lot 711 D

Six crates are bound together and left to their materiality. The monochrome colour replaces their initially raw character, refining the crates into a cultivated object. An "object in colour", revealing the view through a protective grid into an associative space. Or is C.O. Paeffgen playing a game here to test conventional colour painting and its effect with three-dimensional crates as carriers, like "shaped canvas", to lever out the actual meaning? The seemingly strict grid creates structures, opening up that behind to allow the view into a banal space. With the obviously deliberate choice of the pink colour, the artist has composed an iconographic setting: gentle and soft, feminine, a protective harem grid, a motif of oriental architecture. The Objet trouvé nevertheless remains an Objet trouvé, the exploration of which he confidently leaves to the viewer who finally discovers the wondrous little bow, this time from a braid, a single wire covered in plastic. A harem grid with a bow. For C.O. Paeffgen, a gesture of distinction.

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