Statue of Liberty Framed, 2019
Fine Art Print auf Papier frei montiert
Rahmen: weisser Holzrahmen, Museumsglass
Blattmass (H x B): 79,8 x 58,8 cm
Rahmenmass (H x B): 80,2 x 59,2 cm
Ed. von 30, AP3/3
Losnummer 08
VERKAUFT
Elmgreen Dragset
- Über das Werk: Every October Germany commemorates its reunification. This year marks thirty tumultuous years since the fall of the wall that carved through Berlin and the lives of its residents. To acknowledge this occasion, Elmgeen & Dragset have produced Statue of Liberty Framed (2019), after their recent sculpture Statue of Liberty (2018), now permanently installed in Berlin at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart. Standing over three meters high, the Statue of Liberty consists of an ATM machine affixed to an original and rare un-graffitied section of the Berlin wall. Inviting meditation on the transformation and gentrification of this recondite European capital, the work staunchly recalls the East-West division of Germany during the Cold War and the sense of possibility that coursed the city's streets following the fall of Communism. Proffering warning too, against the sell-out of history and the realities of hurtling into unadulterated capitalism, the work and its edition are emblematic of a city exonerating its scars through civic development. As a fine art print, the physicality of the wall is accentuated as it projects forward 3-dimensionally from its mount towards the viewer. Paradoxical, weighted and mildly absurd, Statue of Liberty Framed (2019), presents Elmgreen & Dragset’s characteristic unpacking of complex and pertinent issues, here connected deeply to the city they call home.
- Elmgreen Dragset
- Michael Elmgreen (born 1961 in Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969 in Trond- heim, Norway) are based in Berlin and have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. They have held numerous solo exhibitions at art institutions worldwide, including Kunsthalle Praha (2023-24), Centre Pompidou-Metz (2023-24), Fondazione Prada (2022), EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland (2020); The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2019-20); The Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018– 19); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2016); UCCA, Beijing (2016); PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2014); Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2013–14); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2011); ZKM Museum of Modern Art, Karlsruhe (2010); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (2009); Serpentine Gallery, London (2006); Tate Modern, London (2004); and Kunsthalle Zürich (2001). Amongst their most well known works are “Prada Marfa” (2005)—a full scale replica of a Prada boutique in the middle of the Texan desert—and “Short Cut” (2003)—a car and a caravan breaking through the ground, first exhibited in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan, and now in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The artist duo have realized several public sculptures including “Van Gogh’s Ear”, presented first by Public Art Fund at the Rockefeller Center in 2016 and now installed at K11 in Hong Kong, and “Bent Pool”, 2019, permanently installed in Pride Park, Miami Beach. In December 2020, the “The Hive” was installed permanently at Moynihan Train Hall, where it now welcomes visitors entering this renovated extension to Penn Station in New York. In Berlin, the artists won the German Government’s competition for a “Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime”, which has been permanently installed in Tiergar- ten park since 2008 and their outdoor sculpture “Statue of Liberty” (2018) is permanently installed at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart.
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Their work has been included in the NGA Triennial (2023-4), the Bangkok biennial (2018), Istanbul biennial (2013, 2011, 2001), Liverpool biennial (2012), Singapore biennial (2011), Moscow biennial (2011, 2007), Venice biennial (2009, 2003), Gwangju biennial (2006, 2002), São Paulo biennial (2002), and Berlin biennial (1998). In 2009 they received a special mention for their exhibition “The Collectors” in the Nordic and Danish Pavilions at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Elmgreen & Dragset curated the 15th Istanbul Biennial in 2017.mehr
The artists were shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2000) and won the Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2002). In 2012 Elmgreen & Dragset were selected for London’s Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square. In 2015 the artists received honorary doctorates at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and in 2020 they were awarded the B.Z.-Kulturpreis in Berlin.
