Very good condition.
Signed, titled and dated on the upper on the verso.
There are faint scratches on the side and handling marks on the lower left corner, which are considered part of the artwork’s original condition.

The contemporary Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann (1975-) is known for employing text-based media within multidisciplinary conceptual installations and artwork. Producing work that combines video, painting, sculpture, and drawing, Brüggemann’s oeuvre is grounded in punk philosophy and aims to resist systems of containment. Brüggemann’s artistic practice explores the function of language within society and highlights the ways we encounter text through advertising, graffiti, and literature. Our passive consumption of textual messaging is critiqued by Brüggemann, who will often obscure and destroy familiar textual elements.

Brüggemann is interested in gold’s juxtaposing symbolic value between being an economic power and also a spiritual emblem. Gold leaf reveals every crack and intervention of the surface, and in doing so, it acts as a metaphorical medium that mimetically reveals the social tissues of the world. The gold leaf in this work NO NO is revealing, concealing, and reacting to the surface covered in the letters ‘N’ and ‘O’, that appear to spell the words ‘No’ and ‘Non’, and occasionally ‘Noon’. Overlayed in chaotic lines, these words of negation are emblematic of the conformist boundaries in society. Yet the surrealist element of existence is encapsulated by the nonsensical appearance of the word “Noon”, as if there is a glitch in society. Despite the associated negative value of the word “No”, the luxurious appearance of the work is enticing and inspired desire.

Hauser & Wirth, Zurich