Reserve. 2005.
Oil on canvas.
Verso of the canvas signed, dated, titled and inscribed with the dimensions. 240 x 360 cm (94.4 x 141.7 in). [CH].

• This is the artist's largest work to date offered on the auction market.
• In 2008 part of the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Emden.
• In his pictures, Kowski uses fragments of words or terms that stand in the room like tangible objects and structure the picture with the help of perspective, like it is the case here.
• In recent years in particular, Kowski's works have been part of numerous exhibitions, e.g. at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig and the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.

PROVENANCE: Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig (with several gallery stamps and a typographically inscribed gallery label on the stretcher).
Private collection Hesse (acquired from aforementioned in 2006).

EXHIBITION: Uwe Kowski, Beben, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig, January 14 - April 15, 2006 (with full-page illu. on the invitation card, however, the work was acquired before the exhibition).
Full House. Gesichter einer Sammlung, Kunsthalle Mannheim, April 2 - October 22, 2006.
Uwe Kowski, Gemälde und Aquarelle 2001-2008, Kunsthalle Emden, June 28 - September 14, 2008, p. 24 (with full-page illu., pp. 114f.).