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Dana Schutz

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Description

  • Dana Schutz
  • Self Eater #2
  • signed, titled and dated 2003 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 74 by 109.5 cm. 29 by 43 in.

Provenance

LFL Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin and Zach Feuer Gallery, Dana Schutz: Self Eaters and the People Who Love Them, January - February 2004

Catalogue Note

“… The Self-Eaters began privately as drawings that I was afraid would seem super angsty, like bad therapy or really embarrassing expressionism, but I became interested in the way they could open up into a situation. If you took death out of the equation, they could eat themselves and then remake themselves to be any form they wanted to be. In this case the subject was a site – something that constantly produced and consumed itself. I felt like it could relate to painting, since there was so much recycling going on, but also other systems in the world” (Dana Schutz cited in: Helaine Posner, ‘If the Face Had Wheels: An Interview with Dana Schutz’, in: Exh. Cat., New York, Neuberger Museum of Art (and travelling), If the Face Had Wheels: Dana Schutz, 2011. p. 87).
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