Live Auction 3062Post-War and Contemporary Art
Thierry De Cordier (b. 1954)
Lot 34

Thierry De Cordier (b. 1954)

Ik Ben de Wereld! (I Am the World!)

Closed21 April 2016

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EUR 103,500

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Thierry De Cordier (b. 1954)
Ik Ben de Wereld! (I Am the World!)
signed and dated 'Thierry De Cordier 1990' (on the book)
clay, mud, potato skins, hair, beeswax, grit, chicken wire, plaster of Paris and children's rain boots on a book by the artist, Les 12 Lettres en Retard à ma Mere (+)
66 x 58 x 56cm.
Executed in 1990

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1990.

Specialist note

‘You do not have to be a great connoisseur or observer to notice the magnetic power in the art of Thierry De Cordier. It looks like you are drawn into his work, encouraged to come closer, tempted to want to touch and own it, to become part of it. However the closer you get, the more you feel the tendency to flinch back. Thierry De Cordier’s art always seems to preserve some rejection. Exactly at the moment you think you possess the work, its maker, its idea, exactly then you find that rejection again, within the ascesis, inside the deep black’ (Jan Hoet, Thierry De Cordier – Tekeningen (1983-1999), exh. cat., Ghent, S.M.A.K., 2002).