Live Auction 1107Post-War and Contemporary Art (Day Auction)
Martin Boyce (b. 1967)
Lot 132 IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY
A SELECTION OF WORKS FROM THE GOETZ COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT CHARITY PROJECTS

Martin Boyce (b. 1967)

Suspended Pieces of Now and Then

Closed14 February 2013

Price Realised

GBP 10,000

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Martin Boyce (b. 1967)
Suspended Pieces of Now and Then
powder coated steel-bars, chain, wire and deconstructed Arne Jacobsen Series 7 chairs
118 x 121 x 67in. (274.3 x 307.3 x 170cm.)
Executed in 1993

The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004.

Specialist note

'Boyce's objects are not Readymades, they're not involved in some Retro-Avantgarde debate about what might or might not be sculpture. They live in a world where the continuum of commodification extends seamlessly from the most abstract idea of intellectual property - a claim of ownership over a certain colour or shape, used in a certain way - to the ground under your feet; where the power relations of capitalism are an integral part of the landscape and its meaning, not because they are forced on us but because they are the very language we speak.'
(W. Bradley, quoted in Sculptural Sphere, exh. cat., Sammlung Goetz, Munich 2004, p. 63).