Auction 160

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Modern and Contemporary Art

Saturday, 11 July 2026 at 11:00 am - After sale

Lot 376 Joseph Kosuth. 3 Arbeiten. L'essence de la …

3 Arbeiten. L'essence de la rhétorique est dans l'allegorie IV. 1998. Aus: Sequences. Je Aquatinta und Heliogravure auf Rives Velin. Zwei Blatt verso signiert und nummeriert sowie mit dem Stempel des Herausgebers und mit Stempel aufgebrachtem Hinweis zur Installation. - Insgesamt sehr gut. Prachtvolle, ausgesprochen farbsatte Drucke ohne Rand.

Konzeptkunst – Je eines von 60 Exemplaren. - Hg. Edition Schellmann, München/New York. - Joseph Kosuth, einer der Begründer der internationalen Konzeptkunst, hat seit den 1960er Jahren die Beziehung zwischen Sprache, Bedeutung und Bild als zentrales Thema seines Werks etabliert. Die vorliegende dreiteilige Edition zitiert die organischen Wolkenformen aus René Magrittes Gemälde L'apparition (1928) und beschriftet sie mit Begriffpaaren aus Michel Foucaults Essay Ceci n'est pas une pipe (1973): imiter et signifier - montrer et nommer - regarder et lire. Damit untersucht Kosuth, wie Worte Bedeutung erzeugen und wie das Verhältnis zwischen sprachlicher und bildlicher Darstellung grundsätzlich instabil ist.

Conceptual Art – One aquatint and one heliogravure on Rives Velin. Two sheets signed and numbered on the reverse, with the publisher's stamp and a stamped note regarding installation. - In very good condition overall. Magnificent, exceptionally rich-coloured borderless prints. - One of 60 copies. - Published by Edition Schellmann, Munich/New York. - Joseph Kosuth, one of the founders of international conceptual art, has, since the 1960s, established the relationship between language, meaning and image as a central theme of his work. This three-part edition references the organic cloud forms from René Magritte's painting L'apparition (1928) and labels them with pairs of terms from Michel Foucault's essay Ceci n'est pas une pipe (1973): imiter et signifier - montrer et nommer - regarder et lire. In doing so, Kosuth explores how words generate meaning and how the relationship between linguistic and pictorial representation is fundamentally unstable.

Post Auction Price: 1000 €

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