Printed on matte Chromolux
32 x 47 cm
Edition of 60
Signed and numbered by the artist

Silke Otto-Knapp (b. 1970, Osnabrück, Germany) lived and worked in Los Angeles, USAuntil she passed away in 2022. At the centre of her works was the construct of the stage. Motifs ranged from choreographed groups of figures, historical stage sets, as well as pared-down landscapes. Otto-Knapp works with watercolour on canvas using a process of removal and accumulation of pigment in order to create spaces where the flatness of the pictorial space intersects with an illusionistic construction of space.

For Liverpool Biennial 2018, Silke Otto-Knapp was commissioned to produce a new large-scale work for the fourth-floor gallery of Bluecoat. Like a classic frieze, the painting wrapped around the perimeters of the space, combining figures in group formations with abstract panels.