Men of Good Fortune, 2011

Name: RICHARD MOSSE (NÉ EN 1980)
Brand: Men of Good Fortune, 2011
Price: 14000.00 EUR
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Price Realised EUR 17,640

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Closed: 6 Jun 2023

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RICHARD MOSSE (NÉ EN 1980)

Men of Good Fortune, 2011

Price Realised EUR 17,640

Closed: 6 Jun 2023

Price Realised EUR 17,640

Closed: 6 Jun 2023

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RICHARD MOSSE (NÉ EN 1980)
Men of Good Fortune, 2011
tirage C-print, monté sur aluminium, dans un cadre d'artiste
signé à l’encre sur une étiquette de galerie portant le titre, la date et le numéro d’édition ‘AP of 5, with 1 artist proof’ (montage, verso)
image/feuille/montage : 101,6 x 127 cm. (40 x 50 in.)
Ce tirage est une épreuve d’artiste provenant d’une édition de cinq exemplaires et une épreuve d’artiste.

C-PRINT, FLUSH-MOUNTED ON ALUMINIUM, IN ARTIST'S FRAME; SIGNED IN INK ON TYPED GALLERY LABEL WITH TITLE, DATE AND EDITION NUMBER ‘AP OF 5, WITH 1 ARTIST PROOF’ (FLUSH MOUNT, VERSO)

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Acquis directement auprès de celle-ci par le propriétaire actuel en 2012

Catalogue d’exposition, The Devil you Know: Richard Mosse, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2014, pp. 92-93.

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Lot Essay

is part of series Richard Mosse produced in 2011, which documents the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The vivid, explosive colours used by the artist differentiate his work from traditional war reporting images. In this work, he obtains these shades of pink with Kodak Aerochrome film technology, originally designed by the American army during World War II to reveal camouflaged targets hidden in dense vegetation. Aerochrome captures infrared light invisible to the naked eye, transforming the shades of green of the vegetation into a tangy pink, a metaphor for the blood spilled in these African mountains. Mosse uses this technology for more than just aesthetics — he wields it to draw public attention to a military conflict whose multiple documentations since its outset in 1996 have been characterised by violent imagery. Here, Mosse has a more poetic approach that remains every bit as striking.

s’inscrit dans la série réalisée par Richard Mosse en 2011 et documentant la guerre en République Démocratique du Congo. Avec ses couleurs vives et détonantes, Richard Mosse s’éloigne de l’imagerie traditionnelle du reportage de guerre. Il obtient ce camaïeu de roses grâce à l’utilisation d’une pellicule Kodak Aerochrome, technologie développée par l’armée américaine durant la deuxième Guerre mondiale pour repérer des cibles camouflées dans des zones de végétations denses. L’Aerochrome capture la lumière infrarouge, invisible à l’œil nu, transformant les nuances de vert de la végétation en un rose acidulé, métaphore du sang versé dans ces montagnes africaines. Richard Mosse n’utilise pas seulement cette technologie à des fins esthétiques, il s’en empare pour attirer l’attention du public sur un conflit militaire documenté à plusieurs reprises depuis son apparition en 1996 et marqué par une imagerie brutale. Ici, Richard Mosse emprunte une voie plus poétique mais tout aussi frappante.