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Josephine Meckseper (b. 1964)
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Josephine Meckseper (b. 1964)

CDU-CSU

Details
Josephine Meckseper (b. 1964)
CDU-CSU
signed 'J. Meckseper' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
C-print face-mounted to Diasec
41 ¾ x 65 1/8in. (106 x 165.5cm.)
Executed in 2001, this work is number three from an edition of three plus two artist's proofs
Provenance
Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.
Literature
The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue. IG-Metall und die Künstlichen Paradiese des Politischen, exh. cat., Stuttgart, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, 2004, p. 46 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 36-37).
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy of Arts, USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, 2006 (illustrated in colour, pp. 254-255).
Stuttgart, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Josephine Meckseper, 2007 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 60-61).
St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, 2007-2008.
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. No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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Lot Essay

‘Meckseper’s politically engaged works highlight ongoing problems of corporate corruption, status anxiety, social privilege and representations of women. They are also a chilling reminder of the excesses and distortions of capitalism, which has created a world in which, she would argue, there is no separation between materialism and political ideology: we are what we buy’ (P. Ellis, quoted in https://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/josephine_meckseper. htm?section_name=artists_germany [accessed 4th June 2014]).

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