Kendell Geers - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, February 28, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

  • Exhibited


    London, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Kendell Geers: Rogue States, 7 February – 15 March, 2003
     

  • Catalogue Essay


    What makes Geers’ work fundamentally important is the complexity of
    layers of meaning concealed behind its apparent simplicity. It is precisely
    this illusion of straightforwardness that gives the work its strength as
    it belies the multiple meanings and references from which each piece is
    constructed.These are sometimes critical and seldom without a certain
    occultism which is unlikely to be perceived by those who are unfamiliar
    with the hermetic tradition of spirituality.
    (Christine Mace, Kendell Geers,The Internal Experience From Breaking in
    to Breaking out, in Kendell Geers, IRRESPEKTIV, Barcelona, 2007, p. 199)
     

308

Twilight of the Idols (Virgin Mary)

2002

Oberammergau wooden sculpture, Chevron tape, metal and plastic.
Oberammergau wooden sculpture, Chevron tape, metal and plastic.

159 x 51 x 50 cm. (62 5/8 x 20 1/8 x 19 3/4 in).

Estimate
£25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for £66,500

Contemporary Art Day Sale

29 Feb 2008, 2pm
London