Live Auction 7978Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Dan Colen (b. 1979)
Lot 103

Dan Colen (b. 1979)

No Sex No War No Me

Closed29 June 2011

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GBP 70,850

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Dan Colen (b. 1979)
No Sex No War No Me
signed and dated 'Dan Colen 2006' (on the reverse)
enamel and molding paste on panel
60 x 45in. (152.4 x 114.3cm.)
Executed in 2006

Peres Projects, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Dan Colen gathers from mass media, environmental experience and sub-cultural language to conjure sublime images form the prosaic. Graffiti, impudent lyrics and allusions to unsavoury haunts resound with a poetic nihilism. Ranging from hyper-realist canvases to text scrawled boards, ready-made objects and trompe l'oeil sculpture, Colen's work offers potential fictions. Infusing the stuff of everyday with reliquary aura, Colen creates a sense of magical realism with the familiar.' (P. Ellis, USA TODAY New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2006, p. 87).