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ROBERT POLIDORI (b.1940 Canadian)
Lot 15

ROBERT POLIDORI (b.1940 Canadian)

Sala Alejo Carpentier Gran Teatro de la Habana, Havana, 2000

Closed19 November 2008

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GBP 20,000

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ROBERT POLIDORI (b.1940 Canadian)
Sala Alejo Carpentier Gran Teatro de la Habana, Havana, 2000
chromogenic print
signed in ink on typed label with credit, title and edition '9/10' on backing board
40½ x 51in. (103 x 129.5cm.)

Specialist note

This work is number 9 from the sold-out edition of 10.

In his forward to Havana, Eduardo Luiz Rodriguez writes: 'Polidori's photographs are paradoxically beautiful and require a particular sensitivity to understand the intrinsic magic, mystery, and beauty in what is apparently ugly, openly decaying, and potentially lost. They are a challenge to recover reality from nostalgia, to not lose memory.' (p.11)