Sam Taylor-Wood (b. 1967)

Five Revolutionary Seconds III

Details

Sam Taylor-Wood (b. 1967)
Five Revolutionary Seconds III
color coupler print
8 x 78¾ in. (20.5 x 200 cm.)
Executed in 1996. This work is from an edition of three.

Provenance

White Cube, London

Literature

E. Bronfen, "Sustaining the Antagonism Sam Taylor-Wood's "Five Revolutionary Seconds"", Parkett No.55, 1999, pp. 110-111 and 126-127 (illustrated)
M. Hentschel, Photography, Painting, Film: Sam Taylor Wood and the Inflection of Art Forms Emotion and Decadence: Five Revoluntionary Seconds, New York 2000, pp. 10-11 (illustrated)

Exhibited

Barcelona, Sal Montcada de la Fundació "la Caixa", Five Revolutionary seconds, March-April 1997
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Sam Taylor-Wood: Third Party, November 1999-January 2000

Sale room notice

This work is from an edition of three.

Lot Essay

"It's still a room, occupied by a group of people who aren't all necessarily interacting, they are all occupying that same space at a party which is a social event, but each person is in their own world or occupied by their own neuroses."-Sam Taylor-Wood
"...some of this work borrows structural features from the art of film as is notable as is the case in the Cinerama formats of the series Five Revolutionary Seconds. Impossible to take in at a single glance, these force the viewer into a selective and sequential perception. Simultaneously, they involve the viewer in a time horizon borrowed from the medium of film." (M. Hentschel, Third Party/Sam Taylor Wood, New York 2000)

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