Lot 42: Jeppe Hein (b. 1974)

Jeppe Hein (b. 1974)
Please...
neon tubes and transformers
191¾ x 65in. (487 x 165cm.)
Executed in 2008, this work is number three from an edition of three plus two artist's proofs

New York, 303 Gallery, Jeppe Hein, PLEASE..., March-April 2008.
Munich, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Dan Graham/Jeppe Hein: From Seriousness to Silliness, July-August 2008. This exhibition later travelled to Cologne, Johnen + Schöttle, August-October 2008.

N. Smolik, "Dan Graham and Jeppe Hein. Galerie Johnen und Schöttle," in Artforum, vol.47, issue 4, December 2008 (illustrated, unpaged). S. Hohmann, "Das groß Dilemma de Kunst ist: Sie muss mit Disneyland klarkommen," in Monopol, July 2008 (illustrated, pp. 84-89).
"Jeppe Hein & Dan Graham: The Mirror-Stage," in Art Review, issue 2, July-August 2008 (illustrated, pp. 53-63).

Johann König, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite"). If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

'Most important for me is the function of an artwork ... it should communicate with space and spectators, make people interact with the work and start a dialogue with each other' (Jeppe Hein quoted in Jeppe Hein: Sense City, exh.cat., Aarhus, 2009, p. 141).