Simon Linke

Working from photographs of a wide range of artists – including Marina Abramovic, Alberto Giacometti and Claude Monet – taken from the magazine, Linke first replicates the image in pencil, then covers the drawing in a colour wash of oil paint. These elegant paintings stand in stark contrast to his well-known thick impasto paintings of advertisments from Artforum.

Published on the occasion of Linke’s first solo exhibition at Karsten Schubert, London, full-colour images of the eight Untitled (Portraits) are accompanied by an essay by art critic Adrian Searle.