Details
Elmgreen & Dragset (b. 1961 & b. 1969)
Powerless Structures Fig 171
aluminium buckets and polyester paint
250 x 65 x 65cm.
Executed in 2001
Provenance
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Taking Place - The Works of Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Zürich/25th São Paulo Biennial, 2002, no. 171 (illustrated in colour, p. 113).
Special notice
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‘The title Powerless Structure arose from (mis)reading Foucault, who through his writing inspired us to imagine even the invisible and ephemeral as something tangible and structural, something that could easily be played out and displayed in a number of different ways’ – Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset

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