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Lot 193: Extraordinary project: 'scar' Papua shirt with photograph by Roy Villevoye

Est: €1,000 EUR - €1,500 EURPassed
Adams Amsterdam AuctionsAmsterdam, NetherlandsMay 26, 2015

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Description

VILLEVOYE, Roy (Dutch 1960). Red Calico, 2001. Leiden, Museum voor Volkenkunde, 2001. Cardboard box (5 x 23 x 33) with numbered title label, containing an original photo, a shirt an a book. 31 copies hors commerce issued, all with different shirt and photo (c-print). After a first exposition of the Red-Calico project in 2000, the Museum voor Volkenkunde incorporated the work in their re-opening exposition in the following year. Every tenthousandst visitor received a copy of this edition. Unique work of art, hardly ever offered.

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Museum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, 2001

Notes


The Red Calico project consisted of original cloths of the Asmat people combined with a photo of the wearer, thus creating a dialogue between the ragged shirt, isolated from its context in a western museum and the proud owner in his own environment. Villevoy: "Since time immemorial the Asmat people of Papua, now a province of Indonesia, have walked around naked. In the course of the 20th century clothing was gradually introduced by visitors from abroad. To this day, items of clothing are highly valuable and costly items for the Asmat people. They can attain them only as gifts or by buying them from Indonesian settlers with money earned through arduous physical labour for them. I was amazed at how the Asmat customised their own clothing: it has something remarkable and unique and entirely integrated within their culture. Do the rips and cuts relate to their traditional scarifications? Is it a form of showing-off or a protest against the (clothing) prescriptions of the Indonesians who now rule the area? Or is there something else going on? I decided to collect several of these customised T-shirts. So that my choice would not be influenced by my own taste, I collected the T-shirts only on the first day of my visit to a village. As such, all the T-shirts displayed here are authentic and were customised for their own use without my intervention." (Quoted from a newsletter of Museum Boymans). Villevoye was awarded the Sandberg price for this project.

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Art of the XXth Century - NRC veilingen 3

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