Jon Kessler
(born in Yonkers, New York, in 1957) The Cheryl Pictures, 2004, mixed media with doll, camera, light, LCD monitor and motor, 203 x 61 x 76 cm, (PP)
Provenance:
Arndt & Partner, Berlin;
Private Collection, Austria
Since the 1980s Jon Kessler has produced kinetic sculptures that buzz, wiggle and turn. In ‘The Cheryl Pictures’ a doll is placed upon a structure that is turned in circles by means of a motor. A centrally positioned camera films its face during the process. The small monitor on the wall shows the eyes of the doll open, then closed; the doll’s hair turns around her head. With his own individual vocabulary, Kessler refers to the real fears of modern life, whilst also placing us in an exciting ‘wonderland’.
Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy
Mag. Patricia Pálffy
+43-1-515 60-386
patricia.palffy@dorotheum.at
06.05.2015 - 18:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 8,000.- to EUR 12,000.-
Jon Kessler
(born in Yonkers, New York, in 1957) The Cheryl Pictures, 2004, mixed media with doll, camera, light, LCD monitor and motor, 203 x 61 x 76 cm, (PP)
Provenance:
Arndt & Partner, Berlin;
Private Collection, Austria
Since the 1980s Jon Kessler has produced kinetic sculptures that buzz, wiggle and turn. In ‘The Cheryl Pictures’ a doll is placed upon a structure that is turned in circles by means of a motor. A centrally positioned camera films its face during the process. The small monitor on the wall shows the eyes of the doll open, then closed; the doll’s hair turns around her head. With his own individual vocabulary, Kessler refers to the real fears of modern life, whilst also placing us in an exciting ‘wonderland’.
Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy
Mag. Patricia Pálffy
+43-1-515 60-386
patricia.palffy@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Modern & Contemporary Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 06.05.2015 - 18:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 29.04. - 06.05.2015 |