Lot 1: Offering

ANITA DUBE (B. 1958)
Offering
signed, titled and dated 'Anita Dube Offering 2000 5/10' (on the reverse)
gelatin silver prints (triptych)
13 x 19 in. (33 x 48.3 cm.) each
Executed in 2000, edition 9/10 one photograph is edition 5

New Delhi, Nature Morte, Anita Dube Illegal, March-April 2005
New York, Bose Pacia, Anita Dube Illegal, May-June 2005
Venice, iCON/India Contemporary at the Venice Biennale, 2005
Mumbai, Bombay Art Gallery, Noor...etc. Photographs by Anita Dube, November 2005

Anita Dube Illegal, exhibition catalogue, Bose Pacia and Nature Morte, New York, New Delhi, 2005, illustrated, unpaginated
iCON/India Contemporary, Bose Pacia, New York, 2005, illustrated, p. 25

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
Anita Dube has used the enamel eyes found on Hindu idols to create her sculptures and installations for over ten years. These eyes are the last attribute to be placed on a sculpture of a Hindu god and the sculpture is only considered alive once this final piece has been placed. The artist states, "I found that when you have a cluster of them [eyes] they carry the energy and charge of crowds of people. The sense of being in crowded places even messy dirty places, an attraction to the violent energy present in these situations, which is either revolutionary or fascist, is the reason I continue to explore this material." (Interview with Peter Nagy, iCON/India Contemporary, at the Venice Biennale 2005; Bose Pacia, New York, 2005 p. 23)