Live Auction 1151Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Cildo Meireles (B. 1948)
Lot 288

Cildo Meireles (B. 1948)

Resposta (Response)

Closed19 October 2013

Price Realised

GBP 10,000

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Cildo Meireles (B. 1948)
Resposta (Response)
minted with the artist's initials, numbered and dated 'C 1970 C.M 96 3/25 (on one side); minted with the title 'RESPOSTA' (on one side)
bronze plaques and velvet box
5 5/8 x 3 5/8in. (11.8 x 9.3cm.)
Conceived in 1970-1974 and executed in 1996, this work is number three from an edition of twenty-five

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired directly from the artist).

Specialist note

'A bit like Duchamp's concept of a place for instantaneous coincidences, an infinitesimal cut in space, an area where conventional norms do not apply [...] I am thinking of your Objetos Semanticos (Semantic Objects) series, where the connection between title and image points towards other ways of apprehending reality'
(Enguita, quoted in P. Herkenhoff, G. Mosquera and D. Cameron (eds.), Cildo Meireles, London 1999, p. 140).