Collection of Dennis and Debra Scholl
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
LIGHT PAINTING, 2010-2011
Lot Closed
December 4, 11:49 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Collection of Dennis and Debra Scholl
Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu
born circa 1945
LIGHT PAINTING, 2010-2011
Digital File, silent, ed.5 and 2 AP, this edition AP
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
Collection of Dennis and Debra Scholl, Miami, USA
The National Gallery of Victoria, Ian Potter Centre, 2014 - 2015
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, 13 August - 19 December 2011
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, The Moment Eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, 23 May - 25 October 2020
This painting is sold with accompanying documentation provided by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, reading in part:
“Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's Light Painting 2010-11 is a projection composed from a set of 110 drawings in white paint pen on clear acetates, made at Yirrkala Art Centre between 2010 and 2011. These drawings were scanned into a custom made computer program which uses a logarithm to randomly select three acetates at a time, assigns an opacity to each, then overlays against a second set of three. This process continues at an almost imperceptible rate, and only repeats after several hundred million iterations. There is no start and no end. Every time the work is viewed, it is different. The result is a painting with light as its medium.”
An edition of this work is held by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, purchased NGV Foundation, 2013 and also the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand, purchased 2012.