Cildo Meireles (B.1948)
Lot 199

Cildo Meireles (B.1948)

Inserções em Circuitos Ideológicos (Insertions into Ideological Circuits)

Closed14 February 2014

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GBP 37,500

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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 'Insertions into Ideological Circuits 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 2.1/4 x 2.1/4in. (18.2 x 5.7 x 5.7cm.)
Conceived in 1970 and executed in the 1990s

Gift from the artist to the present owner.

Specialist note

‘Really, the Insertions Into Ideological Circuits (Inserções Em Circuitos Ideológicos) arose out of the need to create a system for the circulation and exchange of information that did not depend on any kind of centralized control (censorship). An alternative language’

(C. Meireles).