Lot 2
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Paula Rego (B. 1935)
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Danh Vo (b.1975)

Untitled (A-Z without J) – E

Details
Danh Vo (b.1975)
Untitled (A-Z without J) – E
titled ‘E’ (on the reverse)
gold leaf on cardboard
37 1/8 x 64 5/8in. (91 x 164cm.)
Executed in 2011
Provenance
Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin.
Private Collection, Europe.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘Danh Vo’s cardboard shipping boxes start in the recycling piles, after a product has completed its economic arc. Collected and flattened, they are sent to Thailand where gold leaf is applied... They return reborn and revalued by their surface rather than their contents. The gold is a visa signalling a new mobility, and an empty container previously filled with Evian or Budweiser, for instance, gets recharged’ (J. Simon, quoted in Danh Vo: Go Mo Ni Ma Da, exh. cat., Musée d’Art modern de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 2013, p. 82).

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