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NAM JUNE PAIK (1932-2006)
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signed and dated '89 PAIK' (on the chest)
two antique wood television cabinets, wheels, lights, steering wheel, seven antique wood radio cabinets, nine KTV 4.5-inch TV set (model #4SLE), one Zenith 9-inch TV set (model #F0920A), one Sony LDP (model #LDP-1200A), sneakers and cap
overall: 60 x 40 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101.6 x 101.6 cm.)
Executed in 1989.

Provenance

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990

Exhibited

Reggio Emilia, Chiostri di San Domenico, Nam June Paik a Reggio Emilia, March 1990.

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Lot Essay

"I want to shape the TV screen canvas as precisely as Leonardo, as freely as Picasso, as colorfully as Renoir, as profoundly as Mondrian, as violently as Pollock and as lyrically as Jasper Johns."
—Nam June Paik

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