Lot 103
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Dan Colen (b. 1979)
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Dan Colen (b. 1979)

No Sex No War No Me

Details
Dan Colen (b. 1979)
No Sex No War No Me
signed and dated 'Dan Colen 2006' (on the reverse)
enamel and molding paste on panel
60 x 45in. (152.4 x 114.3cm.)
Executed in 2006
Provenance
Peres Projects, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
M. Holborn & M. Daileey, Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, New York, 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 37).
Exhibited
Berlin, Peres Projects, No Me, 2006.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, USA TODAY New American Art from The Saatchi Gallery, 2006 (illustrated in colour, p. 75). This exhibition later travelled to St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-08.
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Lot Essay

'Dan Colen gathers from mass media, environmental experience and sub-cultural language to conjure sublime images form the prosaic. Graffiti, impudent lyrics and allusions to unsavoury haunts resound with a poetic nihilism. Ranging from hyper-realist canvases to text scrawled boards, ready-made objects and trompe l'oeil sculpture, Colen's work offers potential fictions. Infusing the stuff of everyday with reliquary aura, Colen creates a sense of magical realism with the familiar.' (P. Ellis, USA TODAY New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2006, p. 87).

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