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ET AL - Ibid. Public Projects, Rotoiti Lake
Starting Bid: $2,000
Estimate:
$3,000 - $4,000
Ended
Timed Auction
Two Collections - A Collection of Contemporary NZ & Australian Art - A Collection of Modern British Prints & others
ARTIST
ET AL
Size
84 x 118 cm
Description
Screenprint on vinyl
Medium
Screenprint on vinyl
Provenance
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
Literature
In 2001 the artist working under the pseudonym L. Budd resigned, re-signing thereafter simply as “et al.” meaning “and others”. While L. Budd had been an inclusive signature throughout the late 1990s often signing as “L. Budd et al.”, hinting at the collaborative of unnamed parties, this was nonetheless a new beginning, a birth with an implicit end. Not the death of the author but the death of the individual signatory, and the emergence of a new collective framework, also anonymous.
Exhibited
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington