Lot 230
230
Danh Vo (B. 1975)
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Danh Vo (B. 1975)

Sweet Oblivion

Details
Danh Vo (B. 1975)
Sweet Oblivion
gold leaf and ink on cardboard
13.2 ounces (374.2 grams)
Executed in 2013.
Provenance
The Kitchen Benefit Art Auction, 2013, courtesy of The Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Inigo Philbrick, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Go Mo Ni Ma Da, May-August 2013, p. 91, no. 25 (illustrated).
Brussels, Établissement d'en face, Dirty Dancing, September-October 2013.
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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 signaling 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, 2013, p. 82)

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