I Have to Stay at Home
I Have to Stay at Home
DANH VŌ | UNTITLED
Lot Closed
May 28, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
DANH VŌ
b. 1975
UNTITLED
signed by the artist’s father on the reverse
gold leaf on cardboard
49.5 by 134 cm. 19½ by 52¾ in.
framed: 58 by 142 cm. 22¾ by 56 in.
Executed in 2015.
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Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
This Corona beer box was found in Mexico, and gilded in Thailand. The work is inscribed on the reverse by the artist’s father with a quotation from Antonin Artaud, translated by Nancy Spero; “Born our of a uterus I had nothing to do with”.
The various inscriptions, stamps and address field refer to the transport of the item from Mexico to Thailand.
A similar work was exhibited in 2018 at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo.