LOT DETAILS

Materials:

164 chromogenic, black and white and colour photographs

Size Notes:

163 works; 1 work: 35.6 by 23.8cm.

Edition:

5 from an edition of 10

Markings:

each: numbered of ten and annotated A-D, 1-41, and 1-164 on a label affixed to the reverse

Literature:

Piotr Uklański, Piotr Uklański: The Nazis, Zurich and London 1999, illustration of another example Michel Masserey, 'Sous leur uniforme luster, les Nazis de Hollywood vendent des pailettes' in: Le Temps, Geneva 29 December 1999, p. 37 'The Nazis by Piotr Uklanski', New York Arts Magazine, January 2000, p. 70 Steven Heller, 'Snazi Nazis', The New York Times Book Review, 12 March 2000, p. 22 Massimiliano Gioni, 'Touch Me I'm Sick: Portraits of Power', Flash Art, Milan May-June 2001, no. 218, pp. 108-113 Michael Kimmelman, 'Jewish Museum Show Looks Nazis in the Face and Creates a Fuss', The New York Times, 29 January 2002, pp. E1-2 Sarah Boxer, 'Man Behind a Museum Tempest; A Curator Defends His Show Explaining Nazi Imagery', The New York Times, 24 February 2002 Robert Atkins, 'Bringing Nazi Symbols to the Jewish Museum', ARTnews, New York March 2002, pp. 46-48 Michael Kimmelman, 'Evil, the Nazis and Shock Value', The New York Times, 15 March 2002, pp. E33-35 Leslie Cahmi, 'Peering Under the Skin of Monsters', The New York Times, 17 March 2002, pp. 36-39 'The Banality of Evil', Flash Art, Milan May-June 2002, p. 70 Linda Nochlin, 'Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/ Recent Art', ArtForum, New York Summer 2002, no. 10, pp. 167-168 and p. 202 Charles Labelle, 'Mirroring Evil', Frieze, London June-August 2002, pp. 107-8 Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, et al., 'Piotr Uklanski, The Nazis', Charley 02, Dijon Autumn 2002, n.p. Kate Bush, 'Once Upon A Time in the East: The Art of Piotr Uklanski', ArtForum, November 2002 Exhibition Catalogue, Basel, Kunsthalle, Piotr Uklański: Earth Wind and Fire, 2004, pp.122-3, illustration of detail of another example in colour, and pp.124 illustration of detail of another example in colour on the cover of The Warsaw Voice, 3 December 2000 Exhibition Catalogue, London, Tate Modern; Hamburg, Kunsthalle; Ottowa, The National Gallery of Canada, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, p. 56 and pp. 164-5, illustration in detail and installation of another example in colour.

Provenance:

Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York Private Collection, USA