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YBA YoungBritishArtist Sculpture JewelryCostume First US Exhibit 2000-2001

Name: YBA YoungBritishArtist Sculpture JewelryCostume First US Exhibit 2000-2001
Brand: Contemporary
Price: 125000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Young British Artist (YBA) Philippe Bradshaw (1965-2005) was represented by blue-chip international art galleries when he was the first to reimagine iconic-art images as tapestry-like metal-chain installations in multimedia environments. He is best known for transforming hand-assembled colorful anodized-aluminum links into shimmering semi-transparent layered curtains, whose hanging long strands uniquely amplified the light and sound of his projected camcorder videos and DJ'd music. In Bradshaw's first American exhibition "Disco Damage" in 2001 at NYC's legendary avant-garde art gallery, Deitch Projects, this jewelry-costume sculpture became part of the artist's live-in evolving studio installation. While later celebrating 15 years of art happenings that had occurred at that Soho exhibition space, its gallerist-cum-museum-director Jeffrey Deitch--who was physically scarred during this unforgettable chaotic several-month experience orchestrated by Bradshaw--recounted this show in his retrospective hardcover book "Live The Art". When Bradshaw drowned in the Parisian-river Seine in August 2005 while living the high life of his skyrocketing success in Europe, he left a small body of large installations that is mostly distributed among the world's top private art collections. Notably, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has acquired one of his multimedia works. Last year, another assembly of his chain-curtains made a rare public appearance at new modern-art museum, Heidi Horten Collection, during its inaugural exhibition in Vienna. Since winning a major British visual-art prize in 2000 that marked Bradshaw's art-world ascent following fellow Goldsmiths-College YBAs who were close friends, this sculpture evolved from one of his most elaborate jewelry costumes that he created in London while seducing the American who became his girlfriend. Unlike other pieces of jewelry that he made as gifts to participating acquaintances while video taping the hairdresser-like intimate experience of chain-link assemble on their bodies, Bradshaw acknowledged the significance of this intricate corset-like jewelry costume by turning the 2000-assembled work into an exhibited readymade sculpture using an antique mannequin from his girlfriend's Manhattan home. Gallery-goers at Deitch Projects saw this 2001-crafted sculpture among the odd assortment of readymades that Bradshaw assembled for his on-display daily living and entertainment. As another example, Bradshaw's kilim-topped full-size trampoline in the gallery enabled him to make fearless action videos, while doubling as his wool-covered bed after overnight parties throughout his solo show. Notably, the facial scar that became Deitch's personalized memento mori of Bradshaw was obtained when the gallerist tried to protect the fall of a large male party guest who accidentally bounced off the trampoline--landing on top of the art dealer and crushing his glasses. Months before Bradshaw's unexpected death at the age of 39 when he was represented by the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery-empire, the artist most clearly documented his 2000-creation of this jewelry costume by publishing three video stills in his first museum-show catalogue, "Philippe Bradshaw/A fly in the house". In the hardcover book, Bradshaw titled the video "TJV centurian" to combine initials of the people he directed in his film, which focused on the half-naked woman wearing this jewelry costume with whom he subsequently lived internationally for a couple years. Significantly, this one-of-a-kind readymade sculpture featuring an important jewelry costume is among the few art works by Bradshaw that can stand alone without the compelling video and sound that were meant to enhance his voluminous curtains in site-specific environments. The jewelry-costume sculpture measures 60 x 14 /1/2 inches, while weighing not more than 30 pounds before packing. Only several of Bradshaw's limited-edition chain works were auctioned over a decade ago, while his sole limited-edition jewelry design as a ball-and-chain choker sold out when offered by the Museum der Moderne Salzburg since his solo exhibition there. The out-of-print book published by Hatje Cantz that accompanied that Salzburg-museum show is included with this listing for the jewelry-costume sculpture because the photo on both its front and back covers features another anonymous video still of the aforementioned girlfriend. For this cover photo, which encapsulates his inimitable art form of combining linked-chain with video of associated body-chain making and readymade sculpture, Bradshaw projected the video in his Parisian studio onto a similar headless mannequin positioned in front of layered chain-curtains depicting an abstract image. The book title, "A fly In the house", is a reference to the fly-repelling manufactured decorative screens with free-swinging aluminum chains that were often hung in exterior doorways in southern Europe. As Bradshaw's family spent much time in southern France owing to his maternal French grandparents' residence, it reveals how he cleverly appropriated such memorable elements of his childhood to much later fashion art works in an irreproducible style. Collected by the Getty Research Institute, the museum-exhibition book measures 9 3/4 x 7 inches with 94 color and illustrated pages, including text contributions from international art experts. Also included with this listing is the first monograph cataloguing many of Bradshaw's chain-curtain works with video projections, which was a softcover book jointly published by his two blue-chip art dealers for their first unique solo shows of his work consecutively in Paris and Manhattan in 2001. Several of the in-situ photos in this catalogue, which were taken on various dates during the artist's evolution of "Disco Damage", featured Bradshaw's two-story chain-curtain reproduction of "The Swing" by Jean-Honore Fragonard. One of the dimly-lit photos (timed and dated 05:00, 15.05.01) documents Bradshaw's first public projection of the 2000-video showing him working with a hand-tool next to his pedestal-seated girlfriend to free-form the aforementioned couture jewelry-costume composed of hundreds of colored anodized-aluminum links. For more information about Bradshaw's impact on international contemporary art ending with the YBA movement, read the online obituaries written by art experts associated with his native U.K. newspapers, which were published in The Guardian and The Independent by Fall 2005. While Bradshaw was gaining fans when still living in London's artist-populated East End, the BBC produced a special documentary from late 2000 to early 2001 exploring the area's emerging profitable art scene and influential galleries. This four-part series, titled "The New East-Enders", included studio visits introducing the art work in progress of "upcoming talent" Bradshaw. The artist's aforementioned girlfriend as an art collector, along with London's "most important" artist-teams Tim Noble & Sue Webster plus brothers Jake & Dinos Chapman, also made appearances among a cast of since famous art-world characters. For comparable value of Bradshaw's one-of-a-kind jewelry-costume sculpture in the context of contemporary art and jewelry history, some of Bradshaw's YBA peers have made limited-edition jewelry commissioned by the world's leading gallery and curatorial services devoted to this art form. Located in London's Mayfair district, Louisa Guinness Gallery sells unique jewelry by internationally recognized artists for hundreds of thousands of dollars, such as similarly sized costumes by Alexander Calder. To recap, this listing includes: the jewelry costume whose creation in 2000 by Bradshaw was documented by gallery-authenticated video and still-images, which remains displayed as the gallery-exhibited readymade sculpture assembled by Bradshaw in 2001, along with the two most important monographs of his short career, which span the five years that the artist enjoyed his mounting international success.

Creator:

Contemporary

Metal:

Mixed Metal

Weight:

30 lbs

Dimensions:

Height: 60 in (1,524 mm)Width: 14.5 in (368.3 mm)

Style:

Contemporary

Place of Origin:

United Kingdom

Period:

2000-2009

Date of Manufacture:

2000-2001

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Jewelry costume was handmade from new anodized aluminum chain links in 2000, which was reassembled by its artist for permanent display on an antique dress-form female mannequin constructed of rusted steel parts under a distressed fabric-lined torso.

Seller Location:

Chicago, IL

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU3244218192492

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