Lot 34
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Thierry De Cordier (b. 1954)
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's… Read more
Thierry De Cordier (b. 1954)

Ik Ben de Wereld! (I Am the World!)

Details
Thierry De Cordier (b. 1954)
Ik Ben de Wereld! (I Am the World!)
signed and dated 'Thierry De Cordier 1990' (on the book)
clay, mud, potato skins, hair, beeswax, grit, chicken wire, plaster of Paris and children's rain boots on a book by the artist, Les 12 Lettres en Retard à ma Mere (+)
66 x 58 x 56cm.
Executed in 1990
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1990.
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

‘You do not have to be a great connoisseur or observer to notice the magnetic power in the art of Thierry De Cordier. It looks like you are drawn into his work, encouraged to come closer, tempted to want to touch and own it, to become part of it. However the closer you get, the more you feel the tendency to flinch back. Thierry De Cordier’s art always seems to preserve some rejection. Exactly at the moment you think you possess the work, its maker, its idea, exactly then you find that rejection again, within the ascesis, inside the deep black’ (Jan Hoet, Thierry De Cordier – Tekeningen (1983-1999), exh. cat., Ghent, S.M.A.K., 2002).

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