Lot 553
  • 553

Ryan Trecartin

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
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Description

  • Ryan Trecartin
  • I-Be Area
  • DVD
  • Duration: 1 hour, 48 minutes
  • Executed in 2007, this work is number 1 from an edition of 8 plus 3 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Private Collection

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Crane Arts Center, Big Room Now: Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, February 2007
New York, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, I-Be Area, September - October 2007
Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ryan Trecartin: I-Be Area, May 2008
Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Ryan Trecartin: I-Be Area, September - December 2008
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation, May - August 2009
New York, Solomon F. Guggenheim Museum, Now’s the Time: Recent Acquisitions, November - January 2013
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pittsburg, The Andy Warhol Museum, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, September 2012 - April 2013

Literature

Holland Cotter, “Video Art Thinks Big: That’s Show Biz,” The New York Times, January 6, 2008, pp. AR1 and 18
Karen Rosenberg, “What’s on the Art Box? Spins, Satire, and Camp,” The New York Times, January 11, 2008, p. E36
Cecilia Alemani, “Theatre for Generation Y,” Mousse, no. 15, September 2008
Jonathan Cape, Shape of Things to Come, London, 2009, pp. 102-103, illustrated
Dodie Kazanjian, “The Body Eccentric,” Vogue, February 2010, pp. 188-193
Kevin McGarry, ed., Ryan Trecartin, New York, 2011, pp. 110-111, 114-129, 150-151
Peter Scheldahl, “Experimental People,” The New Yorker, March 24, 2014, pp. 39-40

Condition

This work is in sound and working order. The traveling case shows signs of wear and handling. The silicone hand mold is in two parts, which is inherent to the work.
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