Lot 508
  • 508

Tom Sachs

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Description

  • Tom Sachs
  • Hello Kitty
  • Stamped with the artist's name and number 6/7
  • bronze
  • 51 5/8 by 27 3/8 by 27 3/8 in. 131 by 69.5 by 69.5 cm.
  • Executed in 2001, this work is number 6 from an edition of 7.

Provenance

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Catalogue Note

Tom Sachs: Postmodernism - this introspection - doesn't have to be a bad thing. Being self-obsessed can be okay if it is taken in moderation. It doesn't mean that you have to be a loser about it - these are difficult, difficult times to be precise intellectually. I think that is why there is such machismo, and political incorrectness is such a reactionary thing...

L.P. Streitfeld: To political correctness.

Tom Sachs: And that is equally embarrassing. The point I am trying to suggest is that it is more about being a person than being an artist. It is important to be sensitive to who you are, whatever you do.

L.P. Streitfeld: What is the obsession with Hello Kitty about?

Tom Sachs: I'm not obsessed. She is just a great icon of shopping and meaninglessness. It means absolutely nothing. (L.P. Streitfeld, “Armed & Disarming: the haute bricolage of Tom Sachs,” Sculpture (Washington, D.C.),  vol. 21 no. 4, May 2002)