Live Auction 9383Post-War and Contemporary Art
Cildo Meireles (b. 1948)
Lot 8

Cildo Meireles (b. 1948)

Inserções em Circuitos Ideológicos (Insertions into Ideological Circuits)

Closed24 September 2013

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GBP 25,000–35,000

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Cildo Meireles (b. 1948)
Inserções em Circuitos Ideológicos (Insertions into Ideological Circuits)
(i) signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Inserções em circuitos ideológicos C.M. 5-70' (on the side); inscribed 'JESSE HELMS NO!' (on the alternate side)
(ii) signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Inserções em circuitos ideológicos C.M. 5-70' (on the side); inscribed 'YANKEES GO HOME!' (on the alternate side)
(iii) signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Inserções em circuitos ideológicos C.M. 5-70' (on the side); inscribed 'WHICH IS THE PLACE OF THE WORK OF ART?' (on the alternate side)
transfer text on Coca-Cola glass bottles
each: 7 1/8 x 2¼ x 2¼in. (18.2 x 5.7 x 5.7cm.)
Conceived in 1970 and executed in 1990s, this work is from an unnumbered edition

Gift from the artist to the present owner.

Specialist note

"Information (production, circulation and control) is at the source of the insertions. (...) The work was also linked to the bottles of castaways. Sometimes the business of throwing the bottle into the ocean brings about confusion. But if I threw it in the ocean I would be limiting the efficacy, the possible efficacy of the work to one person. My idea was precisely to use the extension of this total circulation of bottles, that circuit of permanent movement, in order to reach different people. The project messages normally grew out of information or news that had reached me, that people had shared with me, messages about people who had been arrested or who had not been found; at times, people I didn't even know."

(Cildo Meireles quoted in ildo Meireles, exh. cat., London, Tate Modern, 2008, p. 65).