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If We Fly Away, They'll Fly Away...
Details
Dario Robleto (B.1972)
If We Fly Away, They'll Fly Away...
Bone dust, fabric, metal, silver, lead, vinyl, paper, ink, lace, photograph, ground iron and brass, rust and walnut
24 x 16 x 16 in. (60.9 x 40.6 x 40. 6 cm.)
Executed 2005-2006.
If We Fly Away, They'll Fly Away...
Bone dust, fabric, metal, silver, lead, vinyl, paper, ink, lace, photograph, ground iron and brass, rust and walnut
24 x 16 x 16 in. (60.9 x 40.6 x 40. 6 cm.)
Executed 2005-2006.
Provenance
D'Amelio Terras, New York
Literature
D. Robleto, Chrysanthemum Anthems, exh. cat., North Carolina: Weatherspoon Art Museum of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2006, p. 57; image detail pp. 52-53.
M. Duncan, "Remixing the Past," Art in America, November 2007, p. 204 (illustrated in color).
M. Duncan, "Remixing the Past," Art in America, November 2007, p. 204 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Seattle, The Frye Art Museum; Saratoga Springs, Skidmore College, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Alloy of Love, September 2008-January 2009 (illustrated).
New York, D'Amelio Terras, Fear and Tenderness in Men, September-October 2006.
New York, D'Amelio Terras, Fear and Tenderness in Men, September-October 2006.
Sale room notice
Please note that the medium as described by the artist is:
Cast and carved bone dust from every bone in the body, bone calcium, feathers made from a carved vinyl record of Florence Nightingale addressing war veterans and nightingale bird love songs, homemade paper (pulp made from soldiers' letters to sons and daughters from various wars, ink retrieved from letters), fragments of military uniforms and blankets from various wars, excavated child's spoon and fork from a battlefield coated with melted bullet lead from the Revolutionary War, residue from female tears of mourning overlaid with residue from male tears of mourning, war widow's mourning dress fabric and lace, hair flowers braided by a war widow, military photograph, military surgical suture thread, ground iron and brass, rust, walnut, typeset
Cast and carved bone dust from every bone in the body, bone calcium, feathers made from a carved vinyl record of Florence Nightingale addressing war veterans and nightingale bird love songs, homemade paper (pulp made from soldiers' letters to sons and daughters from various wars, ink retrieved from letters), fragments of military uniforms and blankets from various wars, excavated child's spoon and fork from a battlefield coated with melted bullet lead from the Revolutionary War, residue from female tears of mourning overlaid with residue from male tears of mourning, war widow's mourning dress fabric and lace, hair flowers braided by a war widow, military photograph, military surgical suture thread, ground iron and brass, rust, walnut, typeset
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