Franz West *
(Vienna 1947–2012)
Labstück, mid-1980s, glass bottle, wood, gaze, plaster, dispersion, 31 x 77 x 22 cm, (K)
See:
Veit Loers, Franz West, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, DuMont, 2006, pp. 32/111/112
Registered:
Franz West Privatstiftung Archiv, Vienna
Provenance:
Private Property, Vienna
Labstücke
In this context, mention should be made of a special or extended form of Passstück that has existed since the 1980s. The so-called Labstücke are emptied and sculpturally covered bottles of all sorts that, as West emphasises, relate to the drinker’s body in a diametrically opposed fashion…
‘In those days, I was drinking rather heavily but did not want to throw the empty bottles away because their forms reminded me of their contents. Their contents – through which they had received their value and which I had poured into myself – had now become mine. I had become the shell of these contents, and in order to emancipate their former shell, the bottle was sublimated into a work of art.’
Franz West
Specialist: Mag. Elke Königseder
Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358
elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
26.11.2014 - 18:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 50,000.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 32,000.- to EUR 48,000.-
Franz West *
(Vienna 1947–2012)
Labstück, mid-1980s, glass bottle, wood, gaze, plaster, dispersion, 31 x 77 x 22 cm, (K)
See:
Veit Loers, Franz West, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, DuMont, 2006, pp. 32/111/112
Registered:
Franz West Privatstiftung Archiv, Vienna
Provenance:
Private Property, Vienna
Labstücke
In this context, mention should be made of a special or extended form of Passstück that has existed since the 1980s. The so-called Labstücke are emptied and sculpturally covered bottles of all sorts that, as West emphasises, relate to the drinker’s body in a diametrically opposed fashion…
‘In those days, I was drinking rather heavily but did not want to throw the empty bottles away because their forms reminded me of their contents. Their contents – through which they had received their value and which I had poured into myself – had now become mine. I had become the shell of these contents, and in order to emancipate their former shell, the bottle was sublimated into a work of art.’
Franz West
Specialist: Mag. Elke Königseder
Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358
elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Contemporary Art - Part 1 |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 26.11.2014 - 18:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 15.11. - 26.11.2014 |
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