Coda (Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette)
The photographic work Coda (Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette), 2005-7, is a central element of the installation component of the Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette project, which was shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale 52. Exhibition of International Art in Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr, and, more recently, in Behind the Image | The Image Behind (on covering and uncovering media) at STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven.
Coda (Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette), 2005-7
Type C photograph
50x75cm
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 and reinscribed Vogue Homme magazine.
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Specifications: Type C photograph; 50x75cm (image size); printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper; Di-Bond cold mounted and framed.
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.
Availability: 10 photographs from the edition (numbers 6/35 to 15/35) are currently available. Included with each of the photographs is a signed/editioned Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette 2004/5 Project Poster (in a plexiglass frame), plus a short wall text and an 8"x10" project image.
*Note On The Edition:
Edition nos. 1/35 is part of the complete Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette installation suite of works, including the erased magazine, that were shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale and in Leuven in 2009. P.O.A.
Edition nos. 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 2009 Leuven presentation will number between around 30 photographs. P.O.A.
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