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GILLIAN WEARING (B. 1963)
Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (Everything is connected in life the point is to know it and to understand it.)
C-print
4912 x 3178in. (125.7 x 81cm.)
Executed in 1992-1993, this work is number two from an edition of ten plus one artist's proof
Provenance
Maureen Paley, London.
Private Collection, Tel Aviv.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Gillian Wearing: Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say, London 1997 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 89).
R. Ferguson, D. De Salvo & J. Slyce, Gillian Wearing, London 1999, pp. 45, 130, 160 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 47).
Exhibited
London, City Racing, Gillian Wearing, 1993 (another from the edition exhibited).
Vienna, Association of Visual Arts Vienna Secession, Gillian Wearing, 1997, p. 13 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 12).
Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación “la Caixa”, Gillian Wearing, 2001, pp. 30, 89 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 32). This exhibition later travelled to Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea.
London, Whitechapel Gallery, Gillian Wearing, 2012, pp. 50, 222 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 57). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, 2013.
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