Tim Ayres

LOT 183 - TIM AYRES B. 1965 SMALL GIRL LOOKING UP signed, titled, dated 2002 and inscribed Amsterdam on the reverse gloss paint and varnish on board 2,000—3,000 EUR 150 by 130 cm. signed, titled, dated 2002 and inscribed Amsterdam on the reverse gloss paint and varnish on board Galerie Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam Acquired from the above in 2002

LOT 48 TIM AYRES BRITISH, B. 1965 SOMETHING OF THIS AND THAT (TURNS OUT) 4,000—6,000 EUR measurements 150 x 260 cm / 59.06 x 102.36" Description 2003 acrylic and varnish on MDF PROVENANCE donated by the artist EXHIBITED Some recent solo exhibitions Galerie Martin Mertens,Berlin 2009, 'Tim Ayres – to increase in return'Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam 2007, 'On the status of the glass of waterat its halfway mark'Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich 2006, 'New Works'Stadsgalerij Heerlen, 2004 Some recent group exhibitions ArtZuid 2009, Amsterdam2009, 'Berlage in Beeld'Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam 2005, 'Bock mit Inhalt'Centro Cultural Andratx 2005, 'Later on we shall simplifythings' LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Selected publications Tim Ayres, Rutger Fuchs (ed.),Tim Ayres: amongst others , [s.l.]: Tim Ayres 2007Geert Blijham [et al.] (ed.), UMC Utrecht Kunst Collectie ,Utrecht: UMC Utrecht 2005Alan Uglow, Elly Stegeman, Tim Ayres , Amsterdam: GalerieOnrust 1999 Selected public and corporate collections Peter Stuyvesantcollectie, NL • Stadsgalerij Heerlen, NL • Stichting Kunst &Historisch Bezit Fortis in Nederland, NL • Kunstcollectie UMCUtrecht, NL CATALOGUE NOTE Scraps of text, words that have slipped, interrupted phrases andabstract portrait are typical of Tim Ayres' paintings. Thefigurative representations are often reduced to light-and-darkcontrasts; the textual fragments are in fact nothing more thanabstract lines on a coloured background. The lines form words, thena sentence and finally something open to interpretation. Ayresbases the phrases on words he picks up on in film, music orconversations he overhears all over the world. In essence, his workseems all about the art of omission. There is a number of constantsin his work – he generally paints on a panel measuring 130 x 150 cmor multiples of them and the words are rendered in the Eurostylefont. Ayres: 'Eurostyle has simple letters separated by quite a lotof space. The letter's basic shape has roughly the same proportionsas my panel format.' Tim Ayres was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in1989-1991.www.ayres.nl

Tim Ayres: "We don't live foreveranyway", 1992. Marked on the reverse Edition VOUS ETES ICI 32.Langcat. Nr. XVI. 5/9. Mixed media on metal. 64 x 55 cm. Tim Ayres, b. Hastings 1965 "We don't live forever anyway", 1992. Marked on the reverseEdition VOUS ETES ICI 32. Langcat. Nr. XVI. 5/9. Mixed media onmetal. 64 x 55 cm.

- TIM AYRES BRITISH, B. 1965 ALL SINGERS 3,000—5,000 EUR 140 by 122 cm. Description signed, dated 1994 Amsterdam and titled on the reverse silvanol varnish with U.V. filter on board signed, dated 1994 Amsterdam and titled on the reverse

the multiple, 1992, signed and numbered 9/9, published by vous etes ici, amsterdam, in good condition provenance vous etes ici, amsterdam