LOT DETAILS

Materials:

painted wood, Plexiglas rods, light, electric motor

Measurements:

21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (height) by 21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (width) by 17.72 in. (45.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, dated and titled on the reverse Garcia Rossi du G. R. A. V.-Paris, Structure P.-N. a lumiere instable n. 8, 11965

Exhibited:

Bruxelles, Lumière, Mouvement et Optique, Palais des Beaux-Arts, October/November 1965 (fragment of label on the reverse) Dortmund, Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel, Museum am Ostwald, February/March 1968, exh. cat. p. 17 with ill., Como, GRAV 1960-1968, a retrospective, September 1975, exh. cat. p. 85 with ill., London, Denise René back in London, Redfern Gallery, June/July 1989, exh. cat. p. 19 with ill., Grenoble, Stratégies de participation-GRAV-groupe de recherche d’art visuel 1960-1968, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, June/September 1998, ,exh. cat. pp. 49-50 (the variant, Saint Petersburg, Horatio Garcia Rossi e il GRAV, Musée de l’Hermitage, May/September 2008, exh. cat. 48, pl. 5 with ill., Paris, F11 Retour ARTBASEL, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, July/September 2017

Literature:

E. Maurizi, E. Maurizi, Il GRAV Storia e Utopia, Il GRAV Storia e Utopia, Multigrafica ed., Multigrafica ed., Rome 1991, Rome 1991, p. 173, p. 173, pl. 117 with ill., pl. 117 with ill., Note:, Note:, A variant of the same artwork, A variant of the same artwork, dated 1966 (80 x 80 x 67 cm) is part of the collection of Centre Pompidou, dated 1966 (80 x 80 x 67 cm) is part of the collection of Centre Pompidou, Paris with the archive no. AMM 2014-413, Paris with the archive no. AMM 2014-413

Provenance:

Collection of the artist (label on the reverse), Galeria Leila Murdoch, Paris-New York, Studio GR, Sacile-New York, European Private Collection