Artpace 25th Anniversary Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Artpace 25th Anniversary Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Tala Madani
Man Choking His Shadow
Lot Closed
September 28, 06:09 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 17,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Tala Madani (b. 1981)
Man Choking His Shadow
2013
Signed on Verso
Direct gravure
Printer's Proof 2/2 (From the edition of: 2 TPs, 3 APs, 2 PPs, 60 numbered editions)
16 ½ x 11 ⅝ in.
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Gift of Janet Lennie Flohr
In her gestural style, Tala Madani depicts male figures often acting out ridiculous scenarios––disemboweling themselves, vomiting on one another—which results from the artist’s interest in exploring the ridiculous, profane, and humorous through her figures. In Man Choking His Shadow, we see exactly that, a man trying to strangle his own shadow, presumably due to an emotion we can’t identify. Whether because of shame, fear, or something else, the man is attacking a part of himself.