Elmgreen & Dragset (b. 1961 & b. 1968)
Lot 298

Elmgreen & Dragset (b. 1961 & b. 1968)

Untitled

Closed2 July 2014

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GBP 62,500

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Elmgreen & Dragset (b. 1961 & b. 1968)
Untitled
aluminium signboard
108 x 72 x 6in. (274.3 x 182.8 x 15.2cm.)
Executed in 2005, this work is number one from an edition of one

Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo.
Anon. sale, United Asian Auctioneers, 27 November 2010, lot 36.
Private Collection, Japan.

Specialist note

‘In general we prefer to create art works which can function on various levels and can be read from different angles. When we make a Prada shop in the middle of a desert, even the truck drivers who pass it on Highway 90 stop their lorry to take a closer look at this strange shop selling fashionable high-heeled shoes and expensive handbags’ (M. Elmgreen and I. Dragset, quoted in A. Beitin, ‘The Appearance of the Demiurges’, in P. Weibel and A. Beitin (ed.), Elmgreen & Dragset: Trilogy, London 2011, p. 63).