Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Robert Gober, Louise Bourgeois and Karen Kilimnik
Exquisite Corpse #67
Lot Closed
February 29, 03:23 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Robert Gober, Louise Bourgeois and Karen Kilimnik
b. 1954, 1911 - 2010 & b. 1955
Exquisite Corpse #67
signed R.Gober and dated 12/2009; signed LB; signed Karen Kilminik and dated February 3’10 (on the verso)
photocopy collage, India ink and graphite on paper
29½ by 16 in.
74.9 by 103.1 cm.
Executed in 2009-2010.
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Armitage Gone! Dance, New York
Acquired from the above in 2010 by the present owner
New York, Gasser Grunert Gallery, Exquisite Corpse Project to Benefit Armitage Gone! Dance, October - November 2010
The present work was executed as part of the Armitage Gone! Dance Exquisite Corpse project. Over two hundred contemporary artists participated in the creation of collaborative artworks sold to benefit Armitage Gone! Dance, a contemporary dance company led by renowned choreographer Karole Armitage. The project was curated by David Salle, artist and Chairman of the Board of the Armitage Foundation, and Gasser-Grunert Gallery, which also served as the venue where the final works were exhibited. Looking to cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse), a 1920s parlor game invented by the surrealists Marcel Duchamp, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, for inspiration, three or four of the participating artists worked on one portion of the sheet relating to the head and shoulders, torso or legs and feet without any knowledge of the artwork on the previous portion or the identity of the prior artist’s hand. The collaborative drawing approach celebrating chance, spontaneity and radical juxtaposition mirrors the parallel elements in contemporary dance.