Live Auction 1135Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Nam June Paik (1932-2006)
Lot 266

Nam June Paik (1932-2006)

I Ching 36

Closed26 June 2013

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GBP 67,875

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Nam June Paik (1932-2006)
I Ching 36
signed and dated 'PAIK' 91' (on the wooden spinning-wheel)
wood, felt, acrylic, playing cards, dice, aluminium framework and nine Sony monitors
57¾ x 56 5⁄8 x 17 7⁄8in. (147 x 143.9 x 45.7cm.)
Executed in 1991

Casino Knokke, Knokke.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Artworks often need a dignifying-frame, especially if one works with minimalist (esthetic) vocabularies' (Nam June Paik, 'How to keep experimental video on PBS National Programming', 6 June 1979).