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Barbara Kruger
Du Willst es. Du Kaufst es. Du Vergisst es. (You want it. You Buy it. You Forget it.)
2013
Archival pigment print, on heavy wove paper, with narrow margins,
I. 40.6 x 53.4 cm (15 7/8 x 21 in.)
S. 43.1 x 55.7 cm (16 7/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
S. 43.1 x 55.7 cm (16 7/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
stamp signed and numbered 3/8 in pencil (there was also 1 artist's proof), published by Kunsthaus-Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria, unframed.
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For the occasion of the 2002 Schirn exhibition, Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture, Barbara Kruger covered the entire façade of the Galeria Kaufhof on the Zeil in Frankfut with a 2,200 square-metre work, comprising two enormous eyes overlooking the pedestrian shoppers, with the inscription above reading: DU WILLST ES. DU KAUFST ES. DU VERGISST ES. (YOU WANT IT, YOU BUY IT, YOU FORGET IT).