Lot 36
  • 36

Gino De Dominicis

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gino de Dominicis
  • Opera ubiqua
  • titled and signed on the reverse
  • mixed media on photograph mounted on board
  • 20 by 44cm.
  • 7 7/8 by 17 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1997.

Provenance

Private Collection, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. No restoration is visible under ultraviolet light.
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Catalogue Note

"Once a work is completed, it must impress me and compensate for the energy I spent to make it. Such a work can be defined as "anti-entropic", and contradicts the "second principle of thermodynamics". In this way the work deals with the issue of death and immortality of the body, without dangerously delegating it to science and scientists." (the artist cited in: Exhibition Catalogue, Rome, MAXXI, Gino De Dominicis, 2010)