Photographs, Including Works from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Photographs, Including Works from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Property from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Mike Kelley
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #11 (Catholic Girl)
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November 16, 11:32 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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Property from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Mike Kelley
1954 - 2012
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #11 (Catholic Girl)
mural-sized diptych, comprising a chromogenic and a piezo print, framed together, signed in ink on a Gagosian Gallery label on the reverse, 2004-05, no. 5 in an edition of 5
image: each 60 by 76.2 cm (23⅝ by 30 in.)
frame: 85.8 by 187 cm (33⅞ by 73⅝ in.)
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Phillips London, 28 June 2011, Sale 10511, Lot 264
Anne Pontegnie, Mike Kelly: Educational Complex Onwards 1995 - 2008 (Brussels: Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, 2008) p. 189
Mike Kelley’s monumental project The Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction was an intended sequence of 365 video restagings of photographs Kelley sourced from school yearbooks depicting extracurricular activities. This project relates to an earlier body of work, Educational Complex (1995), which featured architectural replicas of schools that Kelley attended and reconstructed from memory. The Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction addresses ritual, memory, and Kelley’s own struggle with trauma caused by abuse he endured as a child. The video reconstructions were part of a sprawling exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in 2005 that included props, drawings, and photographs. The present work, a diptych in an edition of 5, includes a still from the video paired with the source photograph that inspired it.