Madame Blavatsky

Details

Goshka Macuga (b. 1967)
Madame Blavatsky
carved wood, fibreglass, clothes and chairs
45 x 75 x 30in. (114.3 x 190.5 x 73.6cm.)
Executed in 2007

Provenance

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.

Literature

Newspeak- State Hermitage Museum, exh. cat., St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, 2009, pg 84 (illustrated in colour, p. 90).
E. Booth-Clibborn (ed.), History of the Saatchi Gallery, London 2011 (installation view illustrated in colour, p. 825).

Exhibited

Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Kunstverein, The Great Transformation Project, 2008.
New York, Andrew Kreps, Whats in a Name, 2007.
Rome, Instituto di Roma, Strange Comfort, 2010.
London, Saatchi Gallery, Newspeak: British Art Now, 2010 (illustrated in colour, pp. 189-190).
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now, 2011, p. 160 (illustrated in colour, p. 161).
Sligo, The Model, Psychic Lighthouse, 2015.
London, Saatchi Gallery, Dead, 2015.

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‘Garbed in purple, the colour of both magic and mourning, Madame Blavatsky’s effigy emits a transcendental aura, channelling the dark art of inspiration from beyond.’
(Saatchi Gallery, https://saatchigallery.com [accessed 14th September 2015])

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