Lot 132
132
Martin Boyce (b. 1967)
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's… Read more IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY A SELECTION OF WORKS FROM THE GOETZ COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT CHARITY PROJECTS
Martin Boyce (b. 1967)

Suspended Pieces of Now and Then

Details
Martin Boyce (b. 1967)
Suspended Pieces of Now and Then
powder coated steel-bars, chain, wire and deconstructed Arne Jacobsen Series 7 chairs
118 x 121 x 67in. (274.3 x 307.3 x 170cm.)
Executed in 1993
Provenance
The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004.
Exhibited
Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Sculptural Sphere, 2004 (illustrated in colour, pp. 50-51; installation view illustrated in colour, p. 58).
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.

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Lot Essay

'Boyce's objects are not Readymades, they're not involved in some Retro-Avantgarde debate about what might or might not be sculpture. They live in a world where the continuum of commodification extends seamlessly from the most abstract idea of intellectual property - a claim of ownership over a certain colour or shape, used in a certain way - to the ground under your feet; where the power relations of capitalism are an integral part of the landscape and its meaning, not because they are forced on us but because they are the very language we speak.'
(W. Bradley, quoted in Sculptural Sphere, exh. cat., Sammlung Goetz, Munich 2004, p. 63).

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