Rob Pruitt

Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Sydney, Olsen Gallery, Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz: Recent Works, December 2016 - January 2017

This work is in very good condition overall. There is light wear along the edges and at the corner of the canvas.The glitter elements are well intact. There is evidence of some minor white accretions at the center right edge of the canvas. This work was no examined under Ultraviolet light inspection. Unframed.
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"Pruitt is invested in the myth of the panda: as a symbol of our Anthropocene folly that results in the daily extinction of species, of the effete laziness of the stylized beast, of the beguiling tyranny of the precious, of the over-determined affective relations between man and animal. Held before us like some queer statue of a pieta, the cute panda induces guilt with the same potency it did over a decade ago: where in China a plush toy bear rolls off an assembly line in a factory where the real thing once rolled with glee among the bamboo trees. Perhaps, nothing is meant to last." Miciah Hussey in Exh. Cat., New York, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Rob Pruitt: The Last Panda, May 2013