Provenance
Team Gallery, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2010)
Christie’s, London, 12 February 2016, lot 133
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Catalogue Essay
‘It’s a photograph because it’s photographic paper. But obviously I think about them as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting, right? I also have to think about them as sculptures… because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they’re also kind of ready-mades’ (Cory Arcangel, quoted in Mary Heilmann, ‘Cory Arcangel’, Interview, 21 March 2011, online).

For contemporary artist Cory Arcangel, exploration of the intersection between digital technology and art is paramount to his practice. Titled after the means of its creation, the present work, Photoshop CS: 110 by 72 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Russell's Rainbow" (turn transparency off), mousedown y=9300 x=14550, mouseup y=9300 x=19000 is a visual embodiment of a set of instructions to create a colour gradient on Photoshop. Arcangel created the present work using the universally-recognised photo-editing software, Photoshop, transposing the process into a chromogenic print. Pushing the medium and process of creation to the fore, Arcangel’s Photoshop series featured at the artist’s major solo exhibition, The Sharper Image at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami in 2010. Arcangel openly shares his conceptual creations through the title of his artwork, exposing the accessibility of modern technology and bridging the gulf between consumer product and contemporary art.

Growing up during the 1980s and 1990s, Arcangel was immersed in a period of intense technological advancement. The artist’s practice also explores video games and film in the production of his pieces, applying his interest in coding, technology and pop culture. Integrating older versions of games and software into his work, Arcangel often highlights the ever-changing nature of technology, offering the viewer a sense of nostalgia for that which has been replaced and updated. ‘One of the great things about being an artist is you’re given the opportunity to take things out of real life and put it into a place where people might consider it in 20 years, otherwise people will forget’ (Cory Arcangel, quoted in Lydia Morrish, ‘Cory Arcangel on Losing Himself to the Internet’, Dazed, 24 March 2015, online).

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Cory Arcangel

Photoshop CS: 110 by 72 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Russell's Rainbow" (turn transparency off), mousedown y=9300 x=14550, mouseup y=9300 x=19000

c-print mounted to Diasec, in artist's frame
image 278.1 x 181.6 cm (109 1/2 x 71 1/2 in.)
overall 287 x 190.5 cm (113 x 75 in.)
Executed in 2010.

Estimate
£150,000 - 200,000 ‡

Sold for £162,500

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale

London Auction 27 June 2018

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
The Ingenuity
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Antony Gormley
Clamp IV
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Wolfgang Tillmans
paper drop (star) II
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Pat Steir
Calming Waterfall
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Hurvin Anderson
Untitled (Park Scene)
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Jonas Wood
Rosy's Masks
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George Condo
Collision Course
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Martin Kippenberger
Ohne Titel (aus der Serie Das Floß der Medusa)
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Palermo
Wooster Street
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Sean Scully
Landline Green Sea
Estimate £600,000 - 800,000 ‡♠
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Joan Mitchell
Champs
Estimate £2,500,000 - 3,500,000
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Yayoi Kusama
INFINITY-NETS (QRTWE)
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Lucio Fontana
Concetto spaziale, Natura
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Francis Bacon
Interior of a room
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Lynn Chadwick, R.A.
Teddy Boy and Girl II
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Jesús Rafael Soto
36 Cuadrados con banda amarilla
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John Chamberlain
L’Eau Frais Voodoo
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Keith Haring
Untitled (Knokke #3)
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Bird as Buddha
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Miquel Barceló
España económica
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Mark Tansey
Library (of Babylon)
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Paolo Scheggi
Per una situazione
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Agostino Bonalumi
Bianco
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Lucio Fontana
Concetto spaziale
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Josef Albers
Study for Homage to the Square: Late September
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Serge Poliakoff
Composition abstraite
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Pierre Soulages
Peinture 130 x 102 cm, 14 octobre 1980
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Cecily Brown
The Quick One
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Sherrie Levine
Body Mask
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KAWS
PRESSURE PARADE
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Cory Arcangel
Photoshop CS: 110 by 72 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Russell's Rainbow" (turn transparency off), mousedown y=9300 x=14550, mouseup y=9300 x=19000
Estimate £150,000 - 200,000 ‡
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Cory Arcangel

Photoshop CS: 110 by 72 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Russell's Rainbow" (turn transparency off), mousedown y=9300 x=14550, mouseup y=9300 x=19000

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