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Lot 221: LIAM GILLICK

Est: $50,000 USD - $70,000 USD
PhillipsNew York, NY, USNovember 16, 2012

Item Overview

Description


Literally

Dimensions

96 x 96 x 96 in. (243.8 x 243.8 x 243.8 cm)

Artist or Maker

Medium

aluminum letter forms on powder coated aluminum cube

Date

2003

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Projects 79: Liam Gillick, Literally, September 25 – December 1, 2003

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

Notes

The sentence constituting the cube is a direct citation from Walden Two (1948), B.F. Skinner’s postwar vision of an autonomous, selfsuffcient commune. Skinner’s phrase “My step was light and I could feel the ball of each foot pushing the earth down from me as I walked” encapsulates a moment of revelation, a change of attitude, and a
sudden belief in the workings of the commune that enabled Skinner’s protagonist “to feel the earth again.” This sentence functions as a rhetorical tool to stimulate an equally sincere engagement with our own surroundings.

Auction Details

Contemporary Art Day

by
Phillips
November 16, 2012, 12:00 AM EST

450 West 15 Street, New York, NY, 10011, US