Untitled (Vete al diablo), 2006Wood, wire, polyurethane, papier mâché, gesso and oil paint, 182.8x121.9cm with 30.5cm tall base
Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium US$290,500 (Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, November 8th, 2010, Lot 104)
Estimate US$150,000-250,000
Drawing from mass media, environmental experience and sub-cultural language, Dan Colen’s work infuses a sense of magic in the under valued and ordinary. In Untitled (Vete Al Diablo), a graffitied boulder is fictionally transplanted from suburban wasteland. Towering as a henge-like monument, it immediately conjures images of teenage ritual, exuding a reliquary aura as degenerate totem. It is in fact made from papier mâché expertly faux finished to look like the real thing. Colen creates a duplicity in the sculpture’s rough hewn appearance, elevating the overlooked and forsaken to a contemplative object of inspiring craftsmanship. [...]
Provenance Peres Projects, Los Angeles
Provenance Peres Projects, Los Angeles
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