TEFAF New York 2025 – Sprüth Magers

<p><b>Anne Imhof<br />
</b><i>Untitled (Cerberus series)</i>, 2024<br />
Pencil on paper<br />
3 parts, each:<br />
50 × 65 × 3 cm | 19 3/4 × 25 5/8 × 1 1/8 inches (framed)</p>

Sprüth Magers is pleased to participate in TEFAF New York with a solo presentation dedicated to the work of Anne Imhof. Coming on the heels of the artist’s largest performance to date – DOOM: House of Hope, which occupied the Park Avenue Armory just prior to TEFAF – the works on view highlight a new medium for the artist: bronze. First exhibited in her solo show at Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2024, her metallic reliefs adopt this ancient material to continue her investigations into the movements and nuances of the human body.

Imhof is best known for her enduring performances and spectral paintings, yet her artistic practice originates in her drawings, where the body, its movements, expressions and moods take center stage. Using spare, purposeful lines, they delineate wraithlike figures, often in communion with each other and with animals in a manner that evokes timeless, mythological scenes. These works can be understood as blueprints for one of the artist’s performances, where improvising bodies act as pictorial elements that create meaning and emotion through choreographed gestures.

Imhof’s most recent works transform this ongoing drawing practice into sculptural, patinated bronze reliefs in the tradition of artists from antiquity to the Italian Renaissance through Auguste Rodin. In Untitled (Silas) (2024), for example, Imhof’s lines and shading are translated into three dimensions, the figures becoming literally embodied, with seductively smooth, bronzed skin. The scene depicts androgynous characters with limbs entwined, flanked by a dog and dolphins who jump among serene ocean waves. This peaceful view is counteracted by the image of a mushroom cloud bursting on the horizon, which renders the protective embrace of the humans and animals especially poignant and mysterious.

Expanding on themes of melancholy and allegory present throughout Imhof’s oeuvre, the works on view at TEFAF New York exhibit the artist’s compelling synthesis of symbolic figural representations, imagined narratives, and art and cultural history.

About Anne Imhof

TEFAF New York 2025
May 9–13
Private View: May 8
Booth: 306

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