Lot ID:
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Andres
Serrano:
Piss Elegance
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Description
Title:
Piss Elegance
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Period: 1980s
Medium: Photographs, Cibachrome
Year: 1987
Print/Casting Year: 2004
Size: height - 14 in, width - 11 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, on verso
Edition: 31/50
Estimate: from $4,500 to $5,500
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Andres Serrano, Piss Elegance, 1987/2004. Cibachrome, 14 x 11 inches, 35.56 x 27.94 cm. Edition 31/50 (plus 6 artist proofs). Signed.
Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950 in New York City) is an American photographer who has become most notorious through his photos of corpses, as well as his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine.
Serrano is from a half Honduran, half Afro-Cuban background and was raised a strict Roman Catholic. He studied from 1967 to 1969 at the Brooklyn Museum and Art School, and lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited in locations as varied and prestigious as the Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City and a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre in London (2001) and in the Collection Lambert Avignon France (2006). On 5 October 2007, several of his works were vandalized at an art gallery in Lund, Sweden by people who are believed to be part of a neo-Nazi group.
Serrano's work as a photographer tends toward relatively large prints of about 20 by 30 inches (51 cm × 76 cm), which are produced by conventional photographic techniques (as opposed to digital manipulation). He has shot a vast array of subject matter including portraits of Klansmen, morgue photos, and pictures of burn victims. He went into the New York subways with lights and photographic background paper to portray the bedraggled homeless as art objects, as well as producing some rather tender but sometimes decidedly kinky portraits of couples. Many of Serrano's pictures involve bodily fluids in some way—depicting, for example, blood, semen, milk. Within this series are a number of works in which objects are submerged in bodily fluids. Most famous of these is "Piss Christ" (1987), a photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist’s own urine. This caused great controversy when first exhibited. Serrano, alongside other artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, became a figure whom some attacked for producing offensive art while others defended him in the name of artistic freedom.
The most notorious aspects of Serrano's work play on the relationship between beautiful imagery and vulgar even gross materials, with his subject matter often drawing from the potentially controversial and, perhaps, the willfully provocative.[wiki]
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Provenance:
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Publications:
Serrano, Andres, 1950-. Andres Serrano : America and other work / [edited by Dian Hanson]. Koln ; Los Angeles : Taschen, c2004.
Serrano, Andres, 1950-. Andres Serrano : placing time and evil : based on the exhibition Body and soul : a millennium retrospective / produced by Bjørn I. Follevaag ; curated by Malin Barth ; essay by Trond Borgen. Bergen, Norway : Stiftelsen 3,14, 2000.
Serrano, Andres, 1950-. Andres Serrano : a history of sex. Milano : Galleria Photology, 1998.
Serrano, Andres, 1950-. Andrés Serrano : fotografías. [Caracas : SALA Mendoza ; Ciudad Bolívar : Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, 1996].
Serrano, Andres, 1950-. Body and soul / Andres Serrano ; essays by Bell Hooks, Bruce Ferguson, Amelia Arenas ; edited by Brian Wallis. New York : Takarajima Books, c1995.
Serrano, Andres, 1950-. Andres Serrano, works 1983-1993 / curated by Patrick T. Murphy ; essays by Robert Hobbs, Wendy Steiner & Marcia Tucker. Philadelphia : Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, c1994.
Serrano, Andres, 1950-. Andres Serrano : works from 1986-1992 : Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, January-February 1994, Moderna galerija Ljubljana, March 1994, Magazin 4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein Bregenz, May-June 1994. [Warsaw, Poland] : The Centre, [1994].
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