JIM SHAW (NE EN 1952)
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JIM SHAW (NE EN 1952)

(i) Dream drawing ('I was watching a dave del gado...') (ii) Dream drawing ('Inside the liquor store...') (iii) Dream drawing ('This became a Mexican cartoon...')

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JIM SHAW (NE EN 1952)
(i) Dream drawing ('I was watching a dave del gado...')
(ii) Dream drawing ('Inside the liquor store...')
(iii) Dream drawing ('This became a Mexican cartoon...')
Chacun signé et daté 'Jim Shaw '93'' (au dos)
mine de plomb sur papier en trois parties
chacun : 30,5 x 22,8 cm. (12 x 9 in.)
Réalisé en 1993. (3)
Provenance
Art + Public, Genève
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(i)'DREAM DRAWING (I WAS WATCHING A DAVE DEL GADO...)' (ii)'DREAM DRAWING (INSIDE THE LIQUOR STORE...)' (iii) 'DREAM DRAWING (THIS BECAME A MEXICAN CARTOON)' ; EACH SIGNED, NUMBERED, INSCRIBED AND DATED, PENCIL ON PAPER IN THREE PARTS.

Lot Essay

Chacun numéroté et inscrit (au dos) :
(i) '1 I WAS WATCHING A DAVE DEL GADO (?) INFORMERCIAL WHERE A PLATINUM BUMP MAPPED CGI OF DAVES HEAD WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW PEOPLE IMAGINED HE WAS CIA, SCIENTOLOGIST, CHRISTIAN, LIFE SPRING, VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS HE MIGHT HAVE HAD, AS THE PAGES OF A CGI BOOK PASSED THROUGHT HIS CGI TALKING HEAD, WHEN HE MENTIONE VIETNAM, I SAW A WAR-TORN STREET WITH GRUNTS WATCHING FASHION MODELS IN TIGHT HIGH NECKED GOLDLAME DRESSES POSING IN THE MUDDY STREET. BUT I WAS NOW A SECTION OF PASADENA THAT WAS BEING YUPPIFIED. THERE WAS A LIQUOR STORE THAT THE TRENIERS WERE PLAYING AT AS A LOUNGE ACT'
(ii) '2 INSIDE THE LIQUOR STORE THERE WAS A DISPLAY OF NOSTALGIC MERCHANDISE LIKE CANS OF MAPLE SYRUP PILED UP PRECARIOUSLY HIGH. I KNOCKED ONE OVER & STARTED TO PUT IT BACK UP & SAW A BAG OF CHOCOLATE CHIP BREAD, HALF EATEN. THEN I NOTICED A STACK OF SMALL FLAT CHOCOLATES THAT WAS ABOUT TO FALL OVER & BEGAN TO TRY TO REASSEMBLE THE STACK WHEN I NOTICED THEY HAD HANNAH-BARBARA TYPE CHARACTERS INVOLVED IN FAMILY DISPUTES WHICH BEGAN TO ANIMATE AS THE CHOCOLATES FLIPPED LIKE A DECK OF CARDS'
(iii) '3 THIS BECAME A MEXICAN CARTOON FEATURING A PRIMORDEAL BLOB AND A CAVEMAN FIGHTING OVER A BUBBLE THAT WAS SOME SORT OF CHILD. THEN MY FORMER BOSS JEFF WAS LOOKING AT A PROJECTION OF A MOON-LIKE OBJECT WITH A BLACK STREAK IN IT & HE ASKED ME WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS & I SAID CALVIN FROM CALVIN & HOBBES & HE SAID IT WAS A COMET HE'D ANIMATED & WAS TRYING TO MATCH UP AT GREAT EXPENSE'

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