Explosion #16

Name: Charles Gaines (B. 1944)
Brand: Explosion #16
Price: 15000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 18,750

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GBP 1,000 - GBP 2,000

Closed: 20 Sep 2018

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Charles Gaines (B. 1944)

Explosion #16

Price Realised GBP 18,750

Closed: 20 Sep 2018

Price Realised GBP 18,750

Closed: 20 Sep 2018

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Charles Gaines (B. 1944)
Explosion #16
(i) titled 'Explosion #16' (lower left); signed and dated 'Charles Gaines 2006' (lower right)
(i) graphite on two adjoined papers
(ii) graphite on paper
(i) 39¾ x 64in. (101 x 162.5cm.)
(ii) 8½ x 11in. (21.6 x 28cm.)
Executed in 2006

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

Culver City, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Drawings for the Explosion and the Randomized Texts Series, 2006.

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Lot Essay

‘The idea for the Explosion Drawings series came to me after I made the machine-sculpture "Airplanecrashclock" in 1997. That work was a continuous repetition of an airline crash occurring as part of a construction of a downtown city scene. I got the idea of doing the drawings after constructing the crash scene. I noticed that that process of constructing the scene was a lot like painting and drawing. […] "Explosion Drawings" was realized by focusing on the explosion itself without reference to a specific event or accident. My interest in the social context of the accident remained, and in response, I realized the "appendix", a text that accompanies the drawing.’
Charles Gaines

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