Pushes Forward

DESCRIPTION

Original collage | 2023

This is a continuation of Michael DeSutters Counting Bars series. Created from vintage Fortune magazines the artist inherited from his grandfather, the work references growth in multiple ways. While DeSutter thought there was nothing left to explore with the series, each time he sat with the materials it felt like a conversation with his grandfather, driving him to see things in a new way. The artist simply was not ready for this conversation to be over just yet. In the artists own words:

Inspired by my late grandfathers fascination with charting market growth and the numerous bar graphs that fill the pages of 18 years (1954-1972) worth of Fortune magazines he left me, I deconstructed the bar graph while conducting an inward exploration around my own desire to chart growth, personal growth.

This body of work is created entirely from the pages of Fortune magazines my grandfather left me.

DIMENSIONS

25 x 50 inches

FRAMED DIMENSIONS

Floated: 30 x 55 x 2 inches

AUTHENTICATION

The work comes with a Certification of Authenticity signed and numbered by the Co-Founder of Tappan