Coda (Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette)
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Coda (Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette), 2005-7
Coda is the central photographic work of the Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette installation, as seen in the exhibitions Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense (Venice Biennale 52. Exhibition of International Art, 2007), Behind the Image-the Image Behind: on covering and uncovering the image (STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, 2009) and Mary Kelly | Christian Capurro | Klaus Mosettig (Simon Preston Gallery, 2009).
The photograph depicts the erased Vogue Hommes Septembre 1986 #92 magazine (the centerpiece of the Another Misspent Portrait... project) resting on a table, open - apparently - at one double-page spread. In actuality, it is a digital composite-image of around 125 photographs; each a double-page view of the nearly 250 pages that comprise the erased magazine, pictured as one - a near-simultaneous and 'impossible' view. Visible on its palimpsestic surface are the inscriptions of time spent erasing each page, the hourly rates and dollar value assigned to the page by the eraser-participants (from what they were earning), their miscellaneous notations, plus, unerased image and text residue.
Coda represents the culmination of a number of years experimentation and work towards translating, into a singular and independent pictorial form, something of the spatial, temporal, and conceptual dimensions of the Another Misspent Portrait... project as embodied by its enigmatic centerpiece, the erased and (re)inscribed Vogue Hommes magazine.
This photograph is the major editioned component of the Another Misspent Portrait... project and, apart from the Project Poster (2004), the only work that is available independent of the Another Misspent Portrait... 'Project' and 'Archive' Suites. Details of these suites follows.
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Specifications: Type C photograph / 50 x 75cm.
Edition Size: The edition numbers 30 prints (plus Artist Proofs), with 26 of the edition being sold individually (numbers 5/30 to 30/30). See *Note below on edition numbers 1/30 to 4/30.
Availability: 10 prints from the edition (numbers 5/30 to 14/30) are currently available. Included with each print is a signed/editioned Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette Project Poster.
*Note on the edition:
Print 1/30 is part of the complete Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette 'Project Suite' of works - shown at the Venice Biennale (2007) and in Leuven (2009) - that includes the erased magazine.
Prints 2/30 to 4/30 are included with the 3 'Archive Suites' that, in addition to the Coda photograph, contain a Project Poster; plus a Project Archive that incorporates site texts, an image archive that numbers around 30 photographs, the Leuven shortwave broadcast recordings, and various project ephemera.
Contact: Christian at mail(at)christiancapurro.com or the Simon Preston Gallery, New York, on (t) 1-212-431-1105 / office@simonprestongallery.com for further details and pricing information .
Click here for more details and images from the AMPEdS project at the 2007 Venice Biennale of Art.
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