Lot 51: Jason Rhoades (American, 1965-2006)

Jason Rhoades (American, 1965-2006)
4800 Black and White Stills from a Structuralist Movie
Hard drive flatwork, 15 LCD screen, and CD-ROM drive
20¼ x 23¼ x 2¾ in. (51.5 x 59 x 7 cm.)
Executed in 2000. This work is from an edition of twelve.

with David Zwirner Gallery, New York.

Stills taken from a 16mm film shot during the construction of Perfect World in Hamburg. The movie is a structuralist film, beginning with the polishing of the aluminum tubes (the basic component of the Hamburg installation), which eventually are built into a scaffolding structure of the Perfect World. Running time: 4 hours. The stills represent approximately every 2 seconds of the original film.