Lot 199
199
Cildo Meireles (B.1948)
Cildo Meireles (B.1948)

Inserções em Circuitos Ideológicos (Insertions into Ideological Circuits)

Details
Cildo Meireles (B.1948)
Inserções em Circuitos Ideológicos (Insertions into Ideological Circuits)
(i) signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Insertions into Ideological Circuits C.M. 5-70' (on the side); inscribed 'JESSE HELMS NO!' (on the alternate side)
(ii) signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Inserções em circuitos ideológicos C.M. 5-70' (on the side); inscribed 'YANKEES GO HOME!' (on the alternate side)
(iii) signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Inserções em circuitos ideológicos C.M. 5-70' (on the side); inscribed 'WHICH IS THE PLACE OF THE WORK OF ART?' (on the alternate side)
transfer text on Coca-Cola glass bottles
each: 7.1/8 x 2.1/4 x 2.1/4in. (18.2 x 5.7 x 5.7cm.)
Conceived in 1970 and executed in the 1990s
Provenance
Gift from the artist to the present owner.
Literature
D. Cameron, P. Herkenhoff, and G. Mosquera, Cildo Meireles, London 1999, pp. 108-109 and 111 (another example illustrated).
P. Wood, Conceptual Art (Movements in Modern Art), London 2002 (illustrated in colour, p. 61).
G. Brett (ed.), Cildo Meireles, London 2008 (another example illustrated, pp. 62-63 and 65).
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Information, 1970 (another example exhibited, unpaged).
London, Tate Modern, Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970, 2005 (another example exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 138).
Zurich, Daros Latin America AG, Seduções: Valeska Soares, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto, 2006 (another example exhibited, illustrated on pp. 92 and 105).

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Lot Essay

‘Really, the Insertions Into Ideological Circuits (Inserções Em Circuitos Ideológicos) arose out of the need to create a system for the circulation and exchange of information that did not depend on any kind of centralized control (censorship). An alternative language’

(C. Meireles).

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