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Untitled/DNA fragment from human chromosome 13 carrying mutant Rb genes also known as malignant ontumor: genesis
© Ronald Jones/Bildupphovsrätt 2024
Untitled/DNA fragment from human chromosome 13 carrying mutant Rb genes also known as malignant ontumor: genesis
Untitled/DNA fragment from human chromosome 13 carrying mutant Rb genes also known as malignant ontumor: genesis
Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet

Untitled/DNA fragment from human chromosome 13 carrying mutant Rb genes also known as malignant ontumor: genesis

by Ronald Jones
Artist (USA, 1952 - 2019)
Alternate Title
  • Utan titel/DNA-fragment från den mänskliga kromosom 13 bärande mutanta Rb gener, också kända som maligna cancerframkallande gener, som utlöser hastigt växande cancertumörer: genesis
Date1988
MediumBronze, sandstone, marble and wood
Dimensions190 x 36,2 x 36,2 cm
ClassificationSculptures
Credit LinePurchase 1989
Object NumberMOMSK 141
CollectionsSömnlösa nätter
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkThe artist Ronald Jones was also a writer, a design theorist, a critic, a curator and a professor at prestigious universities. His artistic practice was broad, embracing both sculpture and photography,and sometimes even opera and landscaping. Many of his works are politically rebellious in a subtle, conceptual way. In 1988, he created a series of works that, at first glance, look like typical modernist sculptures, with their soft, abstract shapes in shiny metal. But the title, "Untitled/New human immune deficiency virus bursting from a microvillus" explains that this is a human cell structure that has been attacked by the human immune deficiency virus HIV. The photograph 16 Isarstrasse refers to the address in West Germany where terrorists planned the bombing of a Pan Am flight above the Scottish village of Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people. The objects in the picture are from the plane wreckage.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Ej signerad Selected exhibition history Sömnlösa nätter. Från 1980-talet i Moderna Museets samling (den 24 februari 2023 - den 14 januari 2024) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall (2003) Malmö Konsthall The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall : [Malmö Konsthall : 8 februari - 4 maj 2003]