Lot 6
  • 6

Adam Pendleton

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Adam Pendleton
  • System of Display, D (Divided/ Jean-Marie Straub, The Bridegroom, The Comedienne & the Pimp, 1968)
  • silkscreen ink on glass and mirror, in artist's frame
  • 162.2 by 124 cm. 63 7/8 by 48 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 2011.

Provenance

Pace Gallery, London

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although it fails to fully convey the reflective qualities of the mirrored surface. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

“Pendleton’s work is premised on a strategy of fragmentation and disjunction, whereby the oblique relation of text and image confronts the viewer with pieces of an unfixed grammar of identity and artistic form” (Tom McDonough, 'The Parallax view', ArtForum, November 2011, p. 235).