Rudolf Stingel is a contemporary Italian Conceptual artist. Employing wide-ranging materials such as rubber, carpet, painted aluminum, Styrofoam, and paint, Stingel questions and disrupts the viewer’s understanding and experience of the traditional art object. His work often reflects upon fundamental questions concerning the medium of painting, such as the role of authenticity and context in contemporary art. Born in 1956 in Merano, Italy, he first came to prominence in the late 1980s for his silver paintings mixed with various primary colors. In the early 1990s, Stingel began testing the relationship between painting and the spaces where they are shown, developing a series of installations that covered the walls and floors with ...