Sterling Ruby - Contemporary Art Evening Sale London Friday, October 16, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan

  • Exhibited

    Milan, Galleria Emi Fontana, Recombines, 25 May - 28 July, 2006

  • Literature

    Exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Focus: Sterling Ruby. Supermax 2008, Los Angeles, 2008, p. 44 (illustrated) 

  • Catalogue Essay

    'Ruby's oversized vertical accumulations recall both the utopian formal idiom of Expressionist architecture and the fleshiness of a Paul Thek 'meat' sculpture. Resembling both stalactites and stalagmites, these sculptures are created in a process wherein urethane and paint are allowed to accumulate in flows and drips, in the middle of which they are frozen and flipped upside down. Suggesting abject phalluses whose colors evoke bodily fluids, they are above all monumentalizations of gesture- indeed, by inverting the drip, Ruby foregrounds it as a gesture in search of a subject. But these sublime biomorphic formations are defined by their process of becoming, butressed by unpretentious support structures on which text has been inscribed.' (P. Kaiser, Sterling Ruby: Analytical Expressions, in exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Focus: Sterling Ruby. Supermax 2008, Los Angeles, 2008, p. 18)

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Monument Stalagmite/Recombine Black & Yellow

2006
PVC pipe, plastic urethane, wood, formica plinth.
 

366 x 81.5 x 91.5 cm. (144 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 36 in).
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Estimate
£80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for £61,250

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

17 Oct 2009
London