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λ UWE HENNEKEN (DANISH B. 1974)V.O.T.E. 31-2, 2007Painted bronze and wood 60 x 47.5 x 36cm (23½ x 18½ x 14 1/4in.)This work is edition 2 of 5. Provenance:Meyer Riegger, BerlinAcquired from the above in 2007Born and based in Germany, Uwe Henneken is particularly known for his vibrant landscape paintings. The artist is represented by Choi and Choi, Galerie Gisela Capitain, and Gether Contemporary; he has exhibited at Almine Rech and Rodolphe Janssen. As Henneken's pictorial iconography of itinerant shamans and winding paths suggests, he is preoccupied with travel and transition. The V.O.T.E. sculpture series marks a departure from these trademark canvases, as grotesque, rather pitiful figures peek over the edge of their trunks, mouths agape in disappointment, even despair. The suitcase returns as a symbol in Henneken's 2024 painting Wheels of Life (after Marion Adnams), only that in V.O.T.E. 31-2 is sturdier: an ammunition crate, or perhaps - in a reference to its title - a ballot box Indeed, the frightened character could well be scanning no man's land from a dugout, protected only by its makeshift helmet. A shade more earnest than Henneken's usual magical realism, this work may allude to the psychological baggage that accompanies humans as they journey from place to place.
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