Sawdy

Sawdy

The photo in this car door is from an earlier artwork&nbsp;that Kienholz exhibited at Documenta 5: a tableau&nbsp;<br>of life-size sculptures in which a group of white men&nbsp;castrates a Black man in a parking lot. By framing&nbsp;the photo in a car window, Kienholz takes us to the&nbsp;parking lot and we unwittingly become witnesses. This&nbsp;grim vision of American society was given no space&nbsp;within Photorealism. [text 2024]&nbsp;

The photo in this car door is from an earlier artwork that Kienholz exhibited at Documenta 5: a tableau 
of life-size sculptures in which a group of white men castrates a Black man in a parking lot. By framing the photo in a car window, Kienholz takes us to the parking lot and we unwittingly become witnesses. This grim vision of American society was given no space within Photorealism. [text 2024] 

This object is now not on display in the museum

Title

Sawdy

Artist

Edward Kienholz (Fairfield, Washington 1927 - 1994 Hope, Idaho)

Dating

1971 - 1971

Material and technique

autodeur, fluorescentiebuis, spiegelglas met foto in zeefdruk, autonummerbord

Object number

28922

Object type

object

Acquisition

aankoop door Hedendaagse Kunst-Utrecht (overdracht van HK-U aan CM d.d. 30-11-1989) 1982

Dimensions

hoogte 99 cm

breedte 93 cm

diepte 20 cm

Inscriptions and markings

  • etiket op zijkant, links (gedrukt): TITLE: SAWDY // OBJECT NO. EK 71-2024 // BODY STYLE: 70 DATSUN // LIGHT BULB F 15T8-CW // EDITION NO. # 6 // AUTHORISED: KIENHOLZ // c [copyrightteken] GEMINI G.E.L. 1971 [adres]

What

(herkomst) afkomstig van Hedendaagse Kunst-Utrecht (inv. nr. HKU 82.17)

Documentation

  • Op scherp: Fotorealisme nader bekeken / In Focus: A closer look at photorealism, Hanneke Grootenboer, Esmee Postma, met een bijdrage van Linda Nochlin, (Zwolle, 2024), p. 39, afb. kleur

  • Pop Art [1995], red. Willemien Ippel. tekst Cees Straus. C. Straus, (Rotterdam, 1995), p. 86 afb.

  • Technics and creativity, (New York, 1971), verg. p. 68, met afb.; cat. nr. 279, p. 102,

Exhibitions

  • Op scherp - Fotorealisme nader bekeken, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2024

  • De Zeven Hoofdzonden, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2013 - 2014

  • The Small Utopia. Ars Multiplicata, Ca' Corner della Regina, Venetië, 2012

Persistent url

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.7930E2E5-315D-425F-8915-2985DD08D409

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