Klubbat för:

120000 SEK

Estimate

30 000-40 000 SEK

Description

TETSUMI KUDO
Japan, född 1935
Your portrait
Signerad och daterad Tetsumi Kudo 1963. Trä, metall och plast, 13,4 x 13,4 x 13,4 cm.
Kub i trä med lock, bemålad som tärning, innehållande en öppningsbar, vadderad metallbehållare, som i sin tur innehåller fyra plastägg i olika färger i varandra. Det minsta ägget innehåller ett delbart exkrementliknande föremål inneslutande en liten tärning.
PROVENIENS
Galerie Burén, Stockholm
Designed as die, the cubes - made between 1962-1968 and sometimes stacked - are filled with store bought goods and household refuse like alarm clocks and egg cartons connected to, and often fusing with, plastic dolls and papier mâché body parts. Usually titled with variations of the words, "Your Portrait," these are meant as provocative representations of the European state of being: Individuals retreat into cocoons to take comfort in mass produced stuff and mediated entertainment. Within these shells, they undergo a process of metamorphosis becoming one with technology. The idea of individual agency at the core of Western Philosophy becomes false, people are subject to random forces beyond their control symbolized by Kudo's motif of dice. (extract from exhibition text at Andrea Rosen gallery, 2010)

Auktionsnummer:

638

Date:

2016-04-20