Details
Mac Adams (b. 1943)
The Toaster
gelatin silver print, in two parts
each: 68 x 75cm.
Executed in 1977, this work is number one from an edition of three plus two artist’s proofs
Provenance
John Gibson Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1977.
Exhibited
Groningen, Groninger Museum, Narrative Art, 1979, no. 6.
Aachen, Neue Galerie – Sammlung Ludwig, Mac Adams, 1981.
Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover, Spiegel-Bilder, 1982. This exhibition later travelled to Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum and Berlin, Haus am Waldsee.
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‘Malraux once wrote: 'The Dutch were not the first to paint fish on a plate, but they were the first to stop treating it as food for the apostles.' By the same token, it could be said of Mac Adams that he was not the first to depict sinister objects, but that he pioneered an artistic idea of still life as incrimination’ – Max Kozloff

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