Elmgreen & Dragset - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, October 12, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen

  • Exhibited

    Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, A Room Defined by Its Accessibility,23 June – 9 September 2001; Zurich, Kunsthalle Zurich, Taking Place, 10 November 2001 –20 January 2002

  • Literature

    A Room Defined by Its Accessibility, exh. cat., Copenhagen, Statens Museumfor Kunst, 2001, fig. 127 (illustrated); Taking Place, exh. cat., Zurich, Kunsthalle Zurich, 2001

  • Catalogue Essay

    Elmgreen & Dragset’s ongoing installation series Powerless Structuresexamines the functionality and meaning of space. Depot serves as aplayful intervention into the conventions of the ‘white cube’ gallery space.Typically injected with a sharp subversive humour, the structure and thespace it inhabits are rendered functionless.

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Depot from the series Powerless Structures

2001
MDF, wood, galvanized iron staircase, paint, hinges, door handle, and profile letters.
100 × 360 × 285 cm (39 3/8 × 141 3/4 × 112 1/4 in).
This work is unique and isaccompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artists.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for £25,000

Contemporary Art Day Sale

13 October 2011
London