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Rob Pruitt
B. 1965
PANDA ALLEGORY (PYTHON)
signed and dated 2014 on the overlap
acrylic and glitter on canvas
96 by 72 in. 243.8 by 182.9 cm.
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acrylic and glitter on canvas
96 by 72 in. 243.8 by 182.9 cm.
Provenance
Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Sydney, Olsen Gallery, Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz: Recent Works, December 2016 - January 2017
Catalogue Note
"Pruitt is invested in the myth of the panda: as a symbol of our Anthropocene folly that results in the daily extinction of species, of the effete laziness of the stylized beast, of the beguiling tyranny of the precious, of the over-determined affective relations between man and animal. Held before us like some queer statue of a pieta, the cute panda induces guilt with the same potency it did over a decade ago: where in China a plush toy bear rolls off an assembly line in a factory where the real thing once rolled with glee among the bamboo trees. Perhaps, nothing is meant to last." Miciah Hussey in Exh. Cat., New York, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Rob Pruitt: The Last Panda, May 2013
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