Spider _ Yvan Boucqueniaux

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PIERRE ET GILLES (ACTIFS DEPUIS 1976)
Spider _ Yvan Boucqueniaux
signé, daté et titré (au dos)
Photographie peinte marouflée sur aluminium encadrée par les artistes
Image : 111.7 x 89.1 cm. (43 7/8 x 35 1/8 in.)
Avec le cadre : 141.7 x 119.1 cm. (55¾ x 43 in.)
Réalisé en 1998, pièce unique.

Provenance

Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris

Literature

Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Album Pierre et Gilles, Paris, 2002 (illustré p.187 et 189).

Exhibited

Valencia, Museu de Belles Arts, Pierre et Gilles, juin-juillet 1998 (illustré en couleurs p.87 au catalogue d'exposition).
Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Pierre & Gilles - Douce violence, décembre 1998-janvier 1999 (illustré en couleurs p.81 au catalogue d'exposition).
Paris, Jeu de Paume, Pierre et Gilles, double je, 1976-2007, juin-septembre 2007 (illustré en couleurs p. 304 au catalogue d'exposition).

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Further details

'SPIDER - YVAN'; SIGNED, DATED AND TITLED ON THE REVERSE; UNIQUE HAND-PAINTED PHOTOGRAPH MOUNTED ON ALUMINUM IN ARTISTS FRAME.

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Lot Essay

On this piece the model's image is displayed as the subject of desire and as an object of prey. The shadows that the spider-web firmly projects into the wall create a flocal point that sends our view directly to the shining sex of a naked youth, wrapped only by the shadows immersed in a fantastic and nocturnal ambiance. More than the sensual tension that the image may arouse in the viewer, Spider suggests a progression of the sentimental eroticism clearly manifested in the early works by Pierre et Gilles, towards a more open, in-your-face sexuality like that of their later oeuvres.

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