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Michael Raedecker is a Dutch (active in UK) Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1963. His work is currently being shown at Kunstmuseum Den Haag in The Hague. Numerous key galleries and museums such as 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel have featured Michael Raedecker's work in the past.Michael Raedecker's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 558 USD to 270,248 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is 270,248 USD for Frisson, sold at Christie's London in 2007. Michael Raedecker has been featured in articles for FAD Magazine, ArtDaily and Evening Standard. The most recent article is Michael Raedecker releases very limited embroidered edition written for Phaidon in October 2023.
Since the beginning of his career as a painter, Michael Raedecker has used embroidery in his works to challenge the conventional hierarchy of fine art technique.
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..Best known for his subtle and unsettling, enigmatic works combining muted tones of paint and embroidery, Raedecker’s paintings explore and push the boundaries of his medium...
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..Through his layering of thread, paint and small, yet aggressive punctures to his canvas, Raedecker imparts an unexpected physicality to his two-dimensional works...
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..Raedecker received international recognition in the 1990’s for his paintings depicting conventional forms such as landscapes, still lifes, draperies, ruins or generic architecture...
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..For Raedecker, silver possesses connotations of modernism and technology, which sit uneasily with the craft and traditional elements at the root of his practice...
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