CHEYNEY THOMPSON | Chronochrome (récit 12)

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 2012

This work is in excellent condition overall. There is evidence of minor wear and handling to the edges. When viewed from a side angle, the bottom portion of the canvas slightly bows outward, only noticeable from an acute perspective. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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“Throughout his work, Thompson wants to release our sense of identity from the burden of singularity—to find in formulas of seriality and abstraction samples and samplings of a generative process that is less about productivity than it is about an awakening of a consciousness of production, of (someone’s) labor and time." Ann Lauterbach, “On Cheyney Thompson: The Task of Art in the Age of Information" in Exh. Cat, Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Cheyney Thompson: Metric, Pedestal, Landlord, Cabengo, Recit, 2012, p. 177