Untitled
Bernhard Martin
German, born 1966
2004
A small mixed‑media drawing on stationery—made with pencil, colored ink, watercolor, and ink—in which Bernhard Martin assembles disparate pictorial fragments and graphic shapes into a single, quietly unsettling page that feels like a collision of private sketches and pasted pop imagery.
Your eye hops between a heavily shaded, intimate figure rendered in graphite at left, a glossy striped red teardrop at upper right, a sprayed‑gradient red drop near center, and a cramped, feverish figurative vignette at lower right, producing a rhythm of contrast and narrative dislocation.
The work typifies early‑21st‑century drawing that blurs sketchbook, collage and graphic design, using layering and commercial visual idioms to explore fragmented memory, desire and the uneasy coexistence of personal and mass imagery.
Medium
Pencil, colored ink, watercolor, and ink on stationery in artist's frame
Dimensions
Frame: 12 1/8 x 8 3/4 x 3/4" (30.8 x 22.2 x 1.9 cm)
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Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
2338.2005
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