Provenance:
Galerie Sprüth Magers, Cologne.
Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above in 2004.
‘I’m dead serious about being nonsensical.’ (Ed Ruscha)
Ed Ruscha works across a broad range of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and film; stylistically, he is associated with the Pop Art movement, while his playful and irreverent concepts have ties to Dada and Surrealism. Many of Ruscha’s works incorporate words or phrases – or even single letters, as we see in F-Future. Critics identify the influences Southern California, the artist’s home for many decades, among them the Hollywood film industry and the local landscape and highways. Ruscha’s early training in commercial art and advertising links him to New York counterparts such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
