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Ryan Trecartin (B. 1981)
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HD Digital video, portable G drive, fleece blanket, two plastic bottles, zippered tool box and acrylic box
duration: 26’ 49”
dimensions variable
Executed in 2009-2010, this work is number five from an edition of five plus two artist’s proofs

Provenance

Elizabeth Dee, New York.
Private Collection.

Literature

R. Smith, ‘Like Living, Only More So: Ryan Trecartin Any Ever MoMA PS1’, in The New York Times, 24 June 2011 (film still illustrated in colour).
P. Schjeldahl, ‘Party On: Ryan Trecartin at P.S.1.’, in The New Yorker, 27 June 2011, p. 84.
S. Pulitzer, ‘Ryan Trecartin: MoMA PS1, New York’, in Artforum, vol. 53, no. 11, September 2011 (film still illustrated in colour).
K. McGarry (ed.), Any Ever. Ryan Trecartin, New York 2011 (film stills illustrated in colour, pp. 58-69).

Exhibited

Toronto, The Power Plant, Any Ever, 2010-2011. This exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, MoCA LA; Istanbul, Istanbul Modern; New York, MoMA PS1; North Miami, MoCA North Miami and Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Singapore, Open House, 3rd Singapore Biennale, 2011.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, 2012. This exhibition later travelled to Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum.
Rotterdam, Showroom MAMA, Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, with Rhett Larue, 2012.
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Riotous Baroque, 2012-2013. This exhibition later travelled to Bilbao, Guggenheim Bilbao.
North Miami, MoCA North Miami, Pivot Points: 15 Years and Counting, 2013.
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Infinite Jest, 2014.
Beijing, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, The Los Angeles Project, 2014.

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Further details

Another work from this edition is in the collection of the MoCA North Miami.

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Lot Essay

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

‘There’s no playing of a role, of something cultural. No drag like “I’m a housewife,” or “I am a businessman.” There’s no trying to “be something” and romanticizing any failure at that attempt. It’s a performing by using personality as a language, to try to clear the air and create a dialogue. It’s awesome to me when someone just says it. Especially when they say it twice’
(R. Trecartin, quoted in R. Saylor, ‘Ryan Trecartin, Virtual Reality from YouTube to Saatchi’, in Useless, November 2006, p. 30).

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