- 527
Glenn Ligon
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Glenn Ligon
- One Live and Die
- neon and paint on metal boxes
- 6 x 66 x 6 inches
Provenance
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Acquired by the present owner from the above in August 2006
Acquired by the present owner from the above in August 2006
Exhibited
New York, Marvelli Gallery, Minima Moralia, September - October 2010
New York, La Mama la Galleria, Mixed Messages, June - July 2011
New York, La Mama la Galleria, Mixed Messages, June - July 2011
Catalogue Note
“If Ligon’s neon reliefs call to mind the vernacular signage of shop windows (one even announces “EVERYTHING MUST GO”), they also unapologetically refer to numerous antecedents, including Kosuth and Bruce Nauman, whose exacting language Ligon has long admired. As if to acknowledge this debt, Ligon yanked the twinned phrases “black and die” and “black and live” from Nauman’s neon masterpiece One Hundred Live and Die (1984), an act of deracination that only amplifies the curt brutality of Nauman’s words.” (Scott Rothkopf in Exh. Cat., New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, 2011, p. 45)