Piotr Uklański - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 16, 2006 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris

  • Literature

    P. Uklanski and R. Biuro, eds, Piotr Uklański: Earth Wind and Fire, Ostfildern-Ruit, Basel, 2004, p. 137

  • Catalogue Essay

    There is a striking formal and material diversity in Piotr Uklański’s artwork, as well as an overarching interest in exploitative, spectacular and banal cultural forms. Uklański’s tendency to make art without limits, crossing genres is a means of resistance. This strategy allows Uklański to engage with art/entertainment, high/low dichotomies without resorting to customary hierarchies or consensual value judgments and without being constrained to one classification.

    In the current lot, A Room as a Face, Uklańsi installs “a room” within the room of the exhibition. Typical of Uklański’s body of work, this polished installation challenges our assumptions, and asks us to look at our everyday world in a new way. With lamps as surrogates for eyes and double doors functioning as a mouth, the “room” becomes a portrait.

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Untitled (Room as a face)

2002
Drywall, sliding doors, motion detector, wall mounted light fixtures, theatrical spot light and red gel.
Installation dimensions variable.
This work is unique. The work is to be constructed in proportion to the location in which it is installed. The artist should be consulted for supervision.

Estimate
$120,000 - 180,000 

Contemporary Art Part I

16 Nov 2006, 7pm
New York