Alex Hartley (B. 1963)

Untitled (Sackler)

細節

Alex Hartley (B. 1963)
Untitled (Sackler)
colour photograph, glass, MDF.
29 x 48 x 9in. (74 x 122 x 23cm.)
Executed in 1992
Other work by this artist is included in 'Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection', currently on view at the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

出版

S. Kent & J. Blyth, 'Shark Infested Waters, the Saatchi collection of British Art in the the 90's', London 1994 (illustrated in colour p. 144.)

展覽

New York, Anderson O'Day, 'Alex Hartley', 1992.

拍品專文

"Untitled (Sackler), 1992 is a coloured photograph of a spacious gallery, breathtaking in the pristine elegance of its white walls and wooden floor. These are the refurbished Sackler Galleries of the Royal Academy. The space is empty save a chair awaiting the guard who will watch over the exhibits. The subject is the gallery itself, an equisite envelope designed to be self-effacing- to display artworks to perfection without declaring the architectual wizardry that makes it possible. To be effective the support structure must be invisible. Hartley has encased the photograph in a wedge-shaped frame of etched glass that inhibits our views and alerts us to the fact that what you see is substantially modified by the circumstances in which it is encountered." (S. Kent & J. Blyth, 'Shark Infested Waters, The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90's', London, 1994, p.31).