Coda (Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette)
Coda (Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette), 2005-7 is a new photographic work by Christian Capurro. It is a central element in the Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette installation currently on show at the Venice Biennale 52. Exhibition of International Art, in Robert Storr's show Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense.
Coda (Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette), 2005-7
75 x 100 cm editioned photograph
The photograph depicts the erased Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette magazine resting on a table apparently open at one double-page spread, with all the inscriptions of time, dollar value, miscellaneous notations made by the eraser-participants, and un-erased image/text residue hovering on its palimpsestic surface. What it is, is a composite image of 125 photographs - each a double-page view of the nearly 250 pages that comprise the erased magazine - pictured as one simultaneous (and impossible) view.
The Coda photograph represents the culmination a long enquiry into translating, in a singular and independent pictorial form, something of the spatial, temporal, and conceptual dimensions of the Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette project, as embodied by its enigmatic centerpiece, the erased / inscribed Vogue Homme magazine.
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Specifications: Type C photograph; 75x100cm (framed size)/50x75cm (image size); printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper; Di-Bond cold mounted and framed. The framed photograph can be seen in the Venice Biennale installation shots by following the link below.
Edition Size: The complete edition numbers 35 (plus 5 Artist Proofs), with 30 of the edition being sold individually (numbers 6/35 to 35/35). See *Note below on edition numbers 1/35 to 5/35.
Current Availability: 10 individual photographs from the edition (numbers 6/35 to 15/35) are currently available at the price of AUD$7,000 framed. Included with each of the photographs is a signed and editioned Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette 2004/5 Project Poster (in a plexiglass frame), plus a short wall text.
*Note On The Edition:
Edition number 1/35 is part of the complete Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette installation suite of works currently (including the erased magazine) on show at the 2007 Venice Biennale. P.O.A.
Edition numbers 2/35 to 5/35 are part of the 4 'archive' suites which, in addition to the Coda photograph, contain the 2004/5 Project Poster, plus the site texts and an image archive that, by the completion of the 2007 Venice Biennale presentation, will number between 30 to 40 photographs. P.O.A.
Click here for more details and images from the AMPEdS project at the 2007 Venice Biennale of Art.