Carsten Höller (b. 1961)
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION
Carsten Höller (b. 1961)

Red Baby Whale

细节
Carsten Höller (b. 1961)
Red Baby Whale
polyurethane, enamel and faux eyelashes
35 3/8in. (90cm.) length
Executed in 1995, this work is unique
来源
Theoreticalevents, Naples.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1995.
展览
Naples, Theoreticalevents, Killing Children III, 1995.
Milan, Fondazione Prada, Synchro System, November 2000-January 2001.
拍场告示
Please note that the correct dimension is 48in. (122cm.) length.

拍品专文

"Are the forms of animals consciousness, which have been demonstrated in anthropoids, grey parrots and dolphins and which appear similar to ours, really comparable to ours?
Does not human consciousness originate primarily as a product of the sociological conditions of its coming to being? Doesn't animal consciousness have to be something quite different, something we cannot imagine? Or is there a basic measure of consciousness, which is part of man's biological makeup and also occurs in animals?"
(C. Höller quoted in C. Höller and R. Trockel, Ein Haus für Schweine und Menschen/A House for Pigs and People, Documenta X 1997.)