Ryan Gander Painting drawing, 2024
Stolen cotton napkin, ink, Aloxe Corton 1er Cru rouge Domaine du Pavillon
67,4 x 67,5 x 5 cm
Affixed to a thick burlap ground and framed behind glass, the work feature used cloth napkins with a small drawing of a painting on an easel. The napkins are ostensible from real-life events the artist attended, attested by the precise captions which designate the items on the menu leaving the stains.
Napkins from dinners he attended are also a subject of Gander's earlier series I’ve enabled every rule, for which the artist had linen dinner napkins cast in Carrara marble and placed upon modernist wooden plinths.