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The Atlas Group/Walid Raad (Lebanese, b. 1967)
Lot 189PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, LONDON

The Atlas Group/Walid Raad (Lebanese, b. 1967)

Already Been in a Lake of Fire: Notebook Volume 38

Fermé19 March 2014

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The Atlas Group/Walid Raad (Lebanese, b. 1967)
Already Been in a Lake of Fire: Notebook Volume 38
archival Inkjet print in artist's frame, in nine parts
each: 12 3/8 x 17 1/8in. (31.5 x 43.5cm.);
overall: 37¼ x 51 3/8in. (94.5 x 130.5cm.)
Executed from 1975-2002, this work is number one from an edition of seven plus one artist's proof (9)

Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

Note du spécialiste

Questioning the notion of factual documentation and exploring the creation of historical imagery, Already Been in a Lake of Fire - Notebook Volume 38 represents the pivotal work that brought celebrated contemporary artist Walid Raad and the fictional collective of his own creation, The Atlas Group, to prominence. In this major body of work, an archive of documents, the notebook of a fictional historian named Dr Fakhouri documents a log of every car that was used as a car bomb during the Lebanese Civil War that raged from 1975 to 1990. Particularly poignant in today's tumultuous political environment, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad forces the viewer to question what is real and what is not, revealing a clever play on both historical dependency and media manipulation of the truth.