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Barbara Kruger
Du Willst es. Du Kaufst es. Du Vergisst es. (You want it. You Buy it. You Forget it.)
- Estimate
- £3,000 - 5,000♠†
£4,375
Lot Details
Archival pigment print, on heavy wove paper, with narrow margins,
2013
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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Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
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).