Dan Colen (B. 1979)
Dan Colen (B. 1979)

"...and a new name"

Details
Dan Colen (B. 1979)
"...and a new name"
signed and dated twice '2007 Daniel Colen' (on the stretcher); signed 'Dan Colen' (on the label affixed to the reverse)
chewing gum on canvas in artist's frame
23 7/8 x 18 1/8in. (60.5 x 45.9cm.)
Executed in 2007
Provenance
Peres Projects.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

'I use so many different flavors of gum that I can’t even begin to list them. I shop around. My favorites are these ones called Trident Splash that have a hard shell with a gummy core and it’ll be like a raspberry-apple flavor or something. But I don’t really chew a lot of gum. For the early paintings I would chew it and have other people chew some too. It would build up very slowly, which is why the canvases were so sparse. But for these new ones we figured out other ways to get the gum into a chewed state without actually having to chew it, like by putting it in boiling water. It’s way quicker this way and gives me more options' (D. Colen, quoted in A. Kellner, 'Suck On This', inVice Magazine, https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/suck-this-v15n1, [accessed 12 September 2014]).

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