Tunga - New Now London Thursday, July 13, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Tunga

    Brazilian • 1952 - 2016

    Tunga was born in Palmares, Brazil and trained as an architect. He chose to pursue a visual arts career, through which he is best known for his subversive sculpture, installations and performances. At only 22, Tunga held his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, drawing the attention of the art world with the title Museu da Masturbação Infantil (Museum of Childhood Masturbation).

    Like this first exhibition, Tunga's works are psychologically charged and influenced by Surrealism and Constructivism. His art is highly conceptual and conveys spatial concerns, often dealing with bodily organs and functions, desires and rituals that he depicted in enigmatic environments, employing non-traditional mediums such as teeth, hair, nets and skulls.

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Property from the Collection of Jimmy Belilty

86

Braids

lead
approx. 4 x 510 x 9 cm (1 5/8 x 200 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
Executed in 1980.

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for £88,900

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Charlotte Gibbs
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now
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New Now

London Auction 13 July 2023