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Conceptual Art Hutchinson, Peter Arthur
The Wall – 1988.
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372
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Conceptual Art Hutchinson, Peter Arthur
The Wall – 1988.
See original version (German)
Estimate €2,400 - €3,500
Voluntary lot
Description
Conceptual Art
Hutchinson, Peter Arthur
The Wall – 1988. 1992. Photograph (silver gelatine), text and fragment of the Berlin Wall. 58 x 48.5 cm. Signed and dated. Framed in a wooden box (unopened). – Overall in very good and clean condition.
Private collection, Düsseldorf. – See catalogue ‘Peter Hutchinson’, ed. DAAD Berlin Artists’ Programme, Berlin 1988. - Peter Hutchinson is one of the pioneers of Land Art and Narrative Art and, over the course of decades, has created a body of work that combines photography, collage and handwritten text to create new spaces of meaning. With this work, created in 1988 during a DAAD fellowship in West Berlin, Hutchinson turns his gaze to the Berlin Wall and thus to one of the most symbolic structures of the 20th century. The year of its creation, 1992, marks a moment of historical resonance: the Wall has fallen, yet its scars on the urban and collective memory are still visible. Thus, the Wall itself becomes a found object, an intervention by history, which the artist comments on and questions through collage. The box format is reminiscent of Joseph Beuys’ display cases or Cornell boxes and lends the work a relic-like, museum-like quality: the fragment of the Berlin Wall becomes an artefact of history, a literal remnant of a political trauma. The natural landscape in the background of the photograph further emphasises the contrast between the violence of the structure and the indifference of the landscape.
Photograph (silver gelatine), text and a fragment of the Berlin Wall. 58 x 48.5 cm. Signed and dated. Framed in a wooden box (unopened). - Overall in very good condition and clean. - Peter Hutchinson is one of the pioneers of Land Art and Narrative Art, and over the course of decades has created a body of work that combines photography, collage and handwritten text to create new spaces of meaning. In this work, Hutchinson turns his attention to the Berlin Wall and, with it, to one of the most symbolic structures of the 20th century. The year of its creation, 1992, marks a moment of historical significance: the Wall has fallen, yet its scars on the urban and collective memory are still visible. Thus, the Wall itself becomes a found object, an intervention of history, which the artist comments on and interrogates through collage. The box format is reminiscent of Joseph Beuys’ display cases or Cornell boxes and lends the work a relic-like, museum-like quality: the fragment of the Berlin Wall becomes an artefact of history, the literal remnant of a political trauma. The natural landscape in the background of the photograph reinforces the contrast between the violence of the structure and the indifference of the landscape.
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