VX Collection Minkoff - Tableaux mercredi 21 Septembre, 19h

Daniel Spoerri (1930), "The Dinette", 14 August 1987, mixed media on panel, signed, dated, located and titled on reverse, 100x100x40 cm

Certificate of authenticity from the Association for the Promotion of Daniel Spoerri's Work signed by Barbara Räderscheidt, registered on 03 August 2022, inventory no. 1987_Tp_#0147

Annotation by the artist on the back: The Dinette among the leopard gods / The turkey oath / Ueberstorf / Damokles / Schwert

Spoerri exhibited his trap paintings for the first time in Paris in 1960. Created in the 12 m2 room he occupied in the Hôtel Carcassonne between 1959 and 1965, he presented the remains of meals and used dishes frozen as they were on their support. At that time, the artist did not rearrange anything. He preserves a given situation in its instantaneous, banal and fortuitous nature.

He is interested in the immobilisation of objects that are usually handled and moved during a dinner party. After making them static, he straightens the whole against the wall: the tilting of the horizontal plane of the table - Spoerri's only demonstrative gesture - removes the scene from the ephemerality of everyday life. From then on, the viewer is invited to observe from the front and from a distance what, while sitting at the table, he would not have paid any attention to. Food and its consumption are themes dear to Spoerri, who sees them as an expression of the cycle of life.* The tableaux-pièges have been considered to be on the borderline between art and ethnography.

This 1987 work is an evolution of these trap paintings. This time, the setting is completely fictitious and invites derision with this work, which was created with a satirical aim.
*Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts Lausanne
Bailly cat expo 1988

Lot 140

LOT UPDATE

Estimate

CHF 3 000 - 5,000

Adjudicated(excl. fees)

CHF 4 500

Description

Daniel Spoerri (1930), "The Dinette", 14 August 1987, mixed media on panel, signed, dated, located and titled on reverse, 100x100x40 cm

Certificate of authenticity from the Association for the Promotion of Daniel Spoerri's Work signed by Barbara Räderscheidt, registered on 03 August 2022, inventory no. 1987_Tp_#0147

Annotation by the artist on the back: The Dinette among the leopard gods / The turkey oath / Ueberstorf / Damokles / Schwert

Spoerri exhibited his trap paintings for the first time in Paris in 1960. Created in the 12 m2 room he occupied in the Hôtel Carcassonne between 1959 and 1965, he presented the remains of meals and used dishes frozen as they were on their support. At that time, the artist did not rearrange anything. He preserves a given situation in its instantaneous, banal and fortuitous nature.

He is interested in the immobilisation of objects that are usually handled and moved during a dinner party. After making them static, he straightens the whole against the wall: the tilting of the horizontal plane of the table - Spoerri's only demonstrative gesture - removes the scene from the ephemerality of everyday life. From then on, the viewer is invited to observe from the front and from a distance what, while sitting at the table, he would not have paid any attention to. Food and its consumption are themes dear to Spoerri, who sees them as an expression of the cycle of life.* The tableaux-pièges have been considered to be on the borderline between art and ethnography.

This 1987 work is an evolution of these trap paintings. This time, the setting is completely fictitious and invites derision with this work, which was created with a satirical aim.

*Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts Lausanne

Bailly cat expo 1988

Condition report

Bon état général de conservation

L'oeuvre ne semble pas avoir subi de dommage majeur ni de restauration majeure

Le pain qui est une matière périssable a subi une une altération liée aux micro-organismes. En effet, on peut remarquer des galeries et une friabilité de la matière liée à une ancienne contamination

Les matériaux sont tous de récupération et présentent des dommages qui est probablement étaient présents avant le montage comme des usures Quelques éclats

Le maintien des éléments sur le panneau semble correct bonne planéité du panneau

Empoussièrement légères salissures superficielles

Extra information

COLLECTION MINKOFF

Couple emblématique de l'art contemporain, Muriel Minkoff-Olesen (1948-2020) et Gérald Minkoff (1937-2009), tous deux artistes et vidéastes genevois, se rencontrent en 1967. Muriel, formée à l’Ecole des arts décoratifs de Genève, réalise une série de travaux qu’elle expose dès 1972 en Suisse et à l’étranger (Espagne, France). Gérald, d’abord formé à l’anthropologie et à la biologie, devient pionnier de la vidéo d’art. Dès 1968, il expose ses installations en Europe et à l’étranger (Italie, Etats-Unis, Brésil). Passionnés de voyages, le couple Olesen-Minkoff sillonne le globe de l’Afrique à la Patagonie, en passant par l’Asie, l’Océanie et les Amériques.