Details
Jose Resende (b. 1945)
Untitled
beeswax, copper wire, stainless steel wire, and sand dollar
13 x 812 x 514 in. (33 x 21.6 x 13.3 cm.)
Executed in 2001.
Unique.
Provenance
Gift from the artist to the present owner, 2002-2003.
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Lot Essay

A process artist, Resende has shown tremendous and creative facility with disparate materials both hard and soft, from industrial metals to wax, hide, and fabric. Here, he overlays the edges of a sand dollar with paraffin and pierces it with loops of copper wire, threaded in and out of the rounded, skeletal body. Fragile and suggestively erotic, the assemblage recalls Man Ray’s film L’Étoile de mer (1928) and the surrealist sculpture of Maria Martins, whose influence Resende has acknowledged.

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