{"product_id":"thomas-bayrle-cowboy-death-valley-black-yellow-2016","title":"Thomas Bayrle, Cowboy, Death Valley (black\/yellow), 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuotone silkscreen print on C-MAT 150 gr.\u003cbr\u003e68 x 94 cm\u003cbr\u003eEditon of 25\u003cbr\u003eSigned and numbered\u003cbr\u003ePublic Poster Program (4)\u003cbr\u003ePublished by MOREpublishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThomas Bayrle’s pioneering work is characterised by an obsessive preoccupation with repetition and grid structures, conceiving and representing the world around him as a multitude of social threads. Bayrle began his career as a designer and, after an apprenticeship within a textile factory, he became fascinated by mechanisation and its repetitive patterns and rhythms. From this experience, Bayrle’s work retained the motif of the human figure in the machine age and the structure of the grid. Influenced by pop art, and notably Sigmar Polke in Germany, the Frankfurt School, the economic post-war boom, and most importantly the large American presence in Frankfurt, Bayrle abandoned painting in 1967 to produce serigraphic works reflecting on mass society. Like fellow Frankfurt artist and friend Peter Roehr, Bayrle adopted serial repetition as a means to critically engage with mass consumerism. Placing objects and motives from the daily life and mass advertising into serial patterns, Bayrle’s work reflects on the individual within socio-political, industrial, and technological entities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrices exclusive of VAT and shipping.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Klosterfelde Edition","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58908793241864,"sku":null,"price":2800.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/2346\/2063\/files\/ThomasBayrle_Cowboy_DeathValley_red_blue_5af23ea5-fd71-4b91-928e-966d1ff9bae1.jpg?v=1790612959","url":"https:\/\/klosterfelde-edition.myshopify.com\/products\/thomas-bayrle-cowboy-death-valley-black-yellow-2016","provider":"Klosterfelde Edition ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}