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Lot 310
  • 310

Francisco Infante

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Francisco Infante
  • The Vacuum Clock
  • each piece titled and signed in Cyrillic, numbered and dated 1967 on the reverse
  • tempera on board
  • largest: 68.8 by 53cm, 27 by 20 3/4 in.; smallest: 36.1 by 28.5cm, 14 1/4 by 11 1/4 in.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in Moscow

Condition

The boards appear sound. Apart from some light surface dirt and some very minor abrasion to the corners in places, the works are in good overall condition and the colours are fresh. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

The Vacuum Clock series is based on the key concepts of eternity and mystery, which fascinated the artist from an early age. The central composition, or the ‘visions of the beginning ‘, is placed at the centre of twelve smaller works arranged like a clock face to represent each hour of the day and night.

Infante believes that the spiral is the only form able to move towards infinite depth and create an image of metaphysical dimension. 'I needed to express the feeling of the infinite filling my being. [...] The problem of language! My renderings of reduced and expanded geometric shapes were the language suitable for depicting my experiences' (the artist cited in Francisco Infante-Artifacts: Retrospective, Moscow National Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2004, p.9).