Live Auction 12352A Visual Odyssey Selections from LAC (Lambert Art Collection) Staged by Jacques Grange
Thomas Hirschhorn (B. 1957)
Lot 41

Thomas Hirschhorn (B. 1957)

CNN Necklace

Closed14 October 2015

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GBP 2,750

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Thomas Hirschhorn (B. 1957)
CNN Necklace
signed and numbered 'Thomas Hirschhorn 18/50' (on the reverse of the pendant)
cardboard with foil, plastic, gold wrapping paper and tape
pendant: 21 5/8 x 38 ¼ x 2 ½in. (55 x 97 x 6.4cm.)
overall: 149 5/8in. (380cm.) (approximately, when fully stretched)
Executed in 2002, this work is number eighteen from an edition of fifty

Edition Schellmann, Munich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002.

Specialist note

Thomas Hirschhorn frequently takes on controversial and politicized content in his work. In CNN Necklace he has used the popular logo of the ubiquitous cable news channel to make a dramatically enlarged gold chain, transmuting urban ready-mades into an art work whilst ironizing the twenty-four hour news cycle that CNN developed in the 1980s.