Goshka Macuga (B. 1967)
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's… Read more
Goshka Macuga (B. 1967)

A Time to Live, A Time to Die

Details
Goshka Macuga (B. 1967)
A Time to Live, A Time to Die
ink on hand tooled leather in tray frame
20 3/8 x 57½in. (52 x 146cm.)
Executed in 2005
Provenance
Kate MacGarry, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.
Exhibited
London, Kate MacGarry, Goshka Macuga, 2005.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. VAT rate of 20% is payable on hammer price and buyer's premium

Brought to you by

Client Service
Client Service

Check the condition report or get in touch for additional information about this

If you wish to view the condition report of this lot, please sign in to your account.

Sign in
View condition report

Lot Essay

Goshka Macuga's practice explores traditions of archiving, museum display and public spectacle in ways that disorientate and delight. In previous exhibitions she has provided a total unifying environment for the exhibition of other artist's work, collections of books or curiousities.
Taking her sourced images from publications, and reactivating them in tooled leather, Goshka Macuga's A Time To Live, A Time To Die replicates the authoritative material of book covers. Creating a double entendre 'cover version', Macuga's drawing is a composite of other artists' work, establishing a new context for image interpretation via juxtaposition of chance selection: the girl taken from Picasso, the book from Max Ernst, and birds from images from the 1905 Russian Revolution. Appropriating and reordering these disparate elements, Macuga constructs her own suggestive narrative based on an eclectic and disjointed history. Indelibly engraved on skin, A Time To Live, A Time To Die literally frames the ingrained fabric of memory as tractile experience.

More from Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction

View All
View All