Untitled

by Lee Bontecou

Artist Lee Bontecou (USA, 1931 - 2022)

Alternate Title

Utan titel

Date1962

Dimensions110 x 88 x 40cm

Classification

Sculptures

Countries

United States

Credit LineInköp 1965

Object NumberNMSK 1896

The artwork is not on display

About the artwork Untitled is a relief that Lee Bontecou conceived in Rome while studying early Etruscan art and made upon her return to New York. Near her lower Manhattan studio, she could buy bolts, saw blades, and metal wire. The canvas came from salvaged mail bags. She learnt how to weld metal and experimented with soot to approach the right tone of black. While creating these assemblages of found materials, Bontecou listened to radio transmissions about the Vietnam War, reminding her of the Second World War. She incorporated her outrage in the work, along with allusions to her fascination with the Apollo space program. Bontecou did not care whether her works were figurative or abstract; she merely wanted them to expand, like black holes in space. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad på framsidan i vänstra övre kanten: "BONTECOU", 1. Utställningsetikett på baksidan (fragmentarisk): "Ilena ?, Paris" 2. Utställningsetikett på baksidan: "Documenta iii - Kassel" Selected exhibition history Moderna Museet c/o Magasin 3 (den 23 mars 2002 - den 16 juni 2002) Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall SPEKTAKULÄRA TIDER 60-talet ur Moderna Museets samling (den 26 december 2009 - den 27 februari 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Bibliography Hunter, Sam, American Art of the 20th century, Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers, New York 1972, ill. nr 694, s 363. Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, Chicago, Los Angeles och New York 2003, ill. s 49.

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