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Item Ships From: South Coast
Sailing Through Colors
Located in West Hollywood, CA
ABOUT THE PAINTING 15" X 12" Monoprint In this dreamy monoprint painting, a vibrant red canoe rests snugly between two majestic trees. The artist skillfully captures the essence of s...
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20th Century Expressionist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Oil

Kate (Light Blue)
By Bambi
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Bambi Kate (Light Blue), 2013 Screenprint with glazes on paper 24 x 20 inches Numbered from the edition of 50 in the lower left corner Signed by the artist in the lower right corner ...
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2010s South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

"Mr. Hyde in Yellow" - Colorful Portrait Print by Haleh Mashian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This 25 inch high and 20 inch wide portrait print on canvas is wired and ready to hang. It is hand signed by the artist on the back of the artwork. This piece would be an excellent a...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Mixed Media

Donald Sultan, Silver Flowers, March 5, 2011
By Donald Sultan
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Donald Sultan "Silver Flowers, March 5, 2011" 2011; Silkscreen with hand applied Black Silica on Sauders Waterford paper 38 x 38 inches Edition of 75 Signed Unframed The Black Silica...
Category

2010s Pop Art South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Hero to Zero
By Bambi
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Bambi Hero to Zero, 2013 Screenprint 30 x 22 inches Numbered from the edition of 50 in the lower left corner Signed by the artist in the lower right corner unframed
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2010s South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Balance #4, Hand Printed Work, Linocut
By Stacy Rajab
Located in Yardley, PA
A black and soft pink limited edition linocut print. This design uses linocut blocks to come up with the perfect color block art. This modern linocut i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linocut

Six Greens
By Donald Sultan
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Donald Sultan "Six Greens" 2006; Screenprint 30 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches Edition of 60 Unframed
Category

Early 2000s South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Dead Black Brilliant Utopia
By Damien Hirst
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Damien Hirst Dead Black Brilliant Utopia, 2013 Inkjet, glaze, and diamond dust on Hahnemuhle photo rag ultra smooth 305gsm 34 x 27 1/2 inches Numbered edition ...
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2010s South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Inkjet

Zoot Soot
By Ed Ruscha
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Ed Ruscha Zoot Soot, 2015 Dye cut letterpress on HMP with color threads 11 x 14 inches Numbered out of 40 in the lower left corner Signed by the artist in lower right corner Dedicat...
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2010s South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Other Medium

Thistle
By Donald Baechler
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Donald Baechler Thistle; 1999 Lithograph 43 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches Signed and dated in the lower right Numbered from the edition of 75 in the lower left Published by Brooke Alexander, I...
Category

1990s South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Cyclopean Make-Up
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Salvador Dalí "Cyclopean Make-Up" 1975-76 Lithograph in colors on paper 30 x 22 inches Edition of 250
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1970s Modern South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Matt silver mask wall hanging
By Lois Sattler
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Matt silver mask wall hanging, an homage to africa with gold features and turquoise eyes finished in a lustrous silver glaze. Medium: ceramic porcelain. Made in Ca...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain

Back Study
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
As accomplished in painting and drawing as he is in sculpture, Richard MacDonald’s graphic collection adds an interesting dimension to our understanding of the artist. Sensitive and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Graphic Abstract Black & White Lithograph Signed L. Siekman
Located in Pasadena, CA
A brilliant, graphic abstract black-and-white lithograph. Signed L. Siekman. Numbered 2/7.
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Wood, Paper, Lithograph

Wanna Wearing a Scarf & Earrings
By Jian Wang
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Signed by the artist. Framed dimensions are approx. 12" x 12".
Category

2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Gulf Pride Motors
By Heiner Meyer
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Heiner Meyer "Gulf Pride Motors," 2016 Screenprint 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches Numbered from the edition of 60 on verso Signed by the artist on verso lower right
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2010s South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Valvoline 10W-40
By Heiner Meyer
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Heiner Meyer 'Valvoline 10W-40,' 2016 Screenprint 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches Numbered from the edition of 50 on verso lower left corner Signed on verso
Category

2010s South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Musée Municipal D’Art Moderne Céret
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Signed and numbered to lower margin ‘46/125 Picasso’. This work is number 46 from the edition of 125 printed by Arnéra, Vallauris and published by Musée Municipal d'Art Moderne, Cére...
Category

Mid-20th Century South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linocut

Book scape Photography, Sports_Surf H Square, Ed. of 5_Max Steven Grossman
By Max Steven Grossman
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
MAX STEVEN GROSSMAN Surf H SQ (Square) Trans Mounted Metallic Print 48 x 53 in. Ed 3 of 5 Please note, there is a 3 week printing lead time** Exploring the changing accessibility a...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Mixed Media, Digital

Bookscape Photography, Sports_Surf H, Ed. of 5_Max Steven Grossman
By Max Steven Grossman
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
MAX STEVEN GROSSMAN Surf H Trans Mounted Metallic Print 48 x 100 in. Ed 3 of 5 Please note, there is a 3 week printing lead time** Exploring the changing accessibility and value of...
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2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Mixed Media, Digital

Bookscape Photography, Film_Rock Fashion SQ C , Ed. of 5_Max Steven Grossman
By Max Steven Grossman
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
MAX STEVEN GROSSMAN RAFF SQ LM Trans Mounted Metallic Print 40 x 44 in. Ed 1 of 5 Please note, there is a 3 week printing lead time** Exploring the changing accessibility and value...
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2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Mixed Media, Digital

Bookscape Photography, Fashion and Film_RAFF SQ LM, Ed. of 5_Max Steven Grossman
By Max Steven Grossman
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
MAX STEVEN GROSSMAN RAFF SQ LM Trans Mounted Metallic Print 40 x 44 in. Ed 1 of 5 Please note, there is a 3 week printing lead time** Exploring the changing accessibility and value...
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2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Digital, Mixed Media

Photography_Bookscape/Interior_Music_RAFF SQ YL, Ed. of 5_Max Steven Grossman
By Max Steven Grossman
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
MAX STEVEN GROSSMAN RAFF SQ YL Trans Mounted Metallic Print 40 x 44 in. Ed of 5 Please note, there is a 3 week printing lead time** Exploring the changing accessibility and value o...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Mixed Media

Simon (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertisi...
Category

20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Zebulon (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertising, printmaking, fashion, filmmaking, and more Dalí’s mischievousness and peculiar personality contributed to his status of an international celebrity, but he is better-known for his most distinct attribute: his mastery of art. Dalí’s significance and talent ranks him among the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20th century. “Zebulon” is part of a religion-based series of prints that depict the “Twelves Tribes of Israel”. Each etching represents one of the tribes. Levi, Dan, Joseph, and more are included in this series. The Twelve Tribes of Israel, in the Bible, are the Hebrew tribes which were named after sons or grandsons of Jacob. His name was later changed to Israel, and the Hebrew people became known as Israelites. Biblical scholars believe his name comes from the word zabal, which means to dwell. The Tribe of Zebulon’s territory bordered the Mediterranean Sea and the Sea of Galilee...
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20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Reuben (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertisi...
Category

20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Napthali (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertisi...
Category

20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Levi (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertising, printmaking, fashion, filmmaking, and more Dalí’s mischievousness and peculiar personality contributed to his status of an international celebrity, but he is better-known for his most distinct attribute: his mastery of art. Dalí’s significance and talent ranks him among the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20th century. “Levi” is part of a religion-based series of prints that depict the “Twelves Tribes of Israel”. Each etching represents one of the tribes. Judah, Zebulon, Joseph, and more are included in this series. The Twelve Tribes of Israel, in the Bible, are the Hebrew tribes which were named after sons or grandsons of Jacob. His name was later changed to Israel, and the Hebrew people became known as Israelites. According to the Bible, Levi was the third son of Jacob and was also the founder of the Israelite Tribe of...
Category

20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Judah (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertising, printmaking, fashion, filmmaking, and more Dalí’s mischievousness and peculiar personality contributed to his status of an international celebrity, but he is better-known for his most distinct attribute: his mastery of art. Dalí’s significance and talent ranks him among the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20th century. “Judah” is part of a religion-based series of prints that depict the “Twelves Tribes of Israel”. Each etching represents one of the tribes. Levi, Zebulon, Joseph, and more are included in this series. The Twelve Tribes of Israel, in the Bible, are the Hebrew tribes which were named after sons or grandsons of Jacob. His name was later changed to Israel, and the Hebrew people became known as Israelites. The Tribe of Judah...
Category

20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Joseph (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertising, printmaking, fashion, filmmaking, and more Dalí’s mischievousness and peculiar personality contributed to his status of an international celebrity, but he is better-known for his most distinct attribute: his mastery of art. Dalí’s significance and talent ranks him among the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20th century. In "Joseph (Twelve Tribes of Israel)," Dali...
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20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Issachar (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertisi...
Category

20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Gad (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertisi...
Category

20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Frontispiece (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertisi...
Category

20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Dan (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertisi...
Category

20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Benjamin (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed within his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, adver...
Category

20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Asher (Twelve Tribes of Israel)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Salvador Dalí is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Surrealist artists, whose personality was often displayed on his magnificent works of art. He practiced sculpting, advertisi...
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20th Century Surrealist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Personnages et Nu (Characters and Nude)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Discover the artistic brilliance of Pablo Picasso through his iconic artwork, Personnages et Nu (Characters and Nude), created in 1960. This captivating piece centers around a female...
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Mid-20th Century Modern South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

The New Building
By Jim Dine
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
In 1971 Jim Dine produced the first works in which a large heart appears on its own, a device to which he has since returned both on canvas and in his graphic work, as with this exam...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching, Woodcut

Femme a la Mantille- Carmen, from "Le Carmen des Carmen"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. In 1949 Picasso’s illustrations...
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Mid-20th Century Modern South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Aquatint

Picador Au Repos, from "Le Carmen Des Carmen"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. In 1949 Picasso’s illustrations...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Drypoint

Rock SA V, Ed. of 5_Max Steven Grossman_Bookscape/Interior Photography/Music
By Max Steven Grossman
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
MAX STEVEN GROSSMAN "Rock SA V" Trans Mounted Metallic Print 91 x 48 in. Ed of 5 Please note, there is a 3 week printing lead time** Exploring the changing accessibility and value ...
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2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Metal

70s Rock Sq, Ed. of 5_Max Steven Grossman_Bookscape/Interior Photography/Pop Art
By Max Steven Grossman
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
MAX STEVEN GROSSMAN "70's Rock Square" Trans Mounted Metallic Print 48 x 53 in. Ed of 5 *Please note there is a printing time of 14 Business Days** Exploring the changing accessibi...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Metal

Fashion SQ 3, Ed. of 5_2021_Max Steven Grossman_Bookscape/Interior Photography
By Max Steven Grossman
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
MAX STEVEN GROSSMAN Fashion SQ 3 Trans Mounted Metallic Print 48 x 53 in. Ed of 5 Please note, there is a 3 week printing lead time** Exploring the changing accessibility and value...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Mixed Media

Six Softground Etchings, #1
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A highly influential mid-century American artist, Richard Diebenkorn is known for his abstract landscape paintings, in particular, the "Ocean Park" series, which he exhibited when re...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Seated Nude
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A highly influential mid-century American artist, Richard Diebenkorn is known for his abstract landscape paintings, in particular, the "Ocean Park" series, which he exhibited when re...
Category

1960s American Modern South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Holiday Print by Jonas Wood
By Jonas Wood
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Holiday Print Jonas Wood 9-color screenprint on Rising Museum Board 10.5 x 8" 2018 edition of 250 signed
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2010s Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Reflexion du Peintre sur la Vie (Reflection of the Painter on Life)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Drypoint, 1967. 350x300 mm; 13 5/8x11 5/8 inches, full margins. With the artist's ink stamp signature, lower right, and numbered 38/50 in pencil, lower left. A very good impression. ...
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1960s Cubist South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Drypoint

Torero, from "Le Carmen des Carmen"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developme...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Aquatint

Tulip Sundae
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Best known for his paintings of cakes, pies, pastries, and toys, Wayne Thiebaud hadn’t planned on becoming a visual artist. He apprenticed as a cartoonist at Walt Disney studios and ...
Category

2010s South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Drypoint, Aquatint

River Turns
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Wayne Thiebaud has long been recognized as one of America’s most prominent modern artists. Probably best known for his straightforward, deadpan still-life paintings of the 1960s, and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Brillo Pads, Pasadena Art Museum
By (after) Andy Warhol
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Exhibition poster for "Andy Warhol: Pasadena Art Museum," edition size unknown, unsigned as issued. The name of American artist Andy Warhol is all but sy...
Category

1970s Pop Art South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Tulip Sundae
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Best known for his paintings of cakes, pies, pastries, and toys, Wayne Thiebaud hadn’t planned on becoming a visual artist. He apprenticed as a cartoonist at Walt Disney studios and ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Heart Ridge
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The images in Wayne Thiebaud's drypoints fill the space around them, carving into it. They are images of mountains. In one, only the mountaintop shows and a gigantic cloud is in the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Portrait of Iliazd
By Alberto Giacometti
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Signed by the artist lower right, from Les Douze Portraits du célèbre Orbandale
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20th Century Modern South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Cone
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Cone
Price Upon Request
La Toilette (Woman Dressing)
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Initialed by the artist MR lower left. Manuel Robbe was born in Paris in 1872 to a Northern French family from the town of Berthune. He studied etching and painting and became an ac...
Category

19th Century Modern South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Aquatint

Phil, Fingerprint
By Chuck Close
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Signed by the artist.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Mo'jam
By Farah Khelil
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Farah Khelil, Mo’jam, Fine Art Print, 99.7 x 150 cm, 2015 antoine lefebvre editions bookworm, curated by Antoine Lefebvre The boundaries between passion and destruction fade away. bookworms is an transnational transmedia artists’ project about book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism, passion and destruction. From the encounter with a destroyed book stems a reflection between two artists who are both passionate about books. It is important for us to present this project in different countries because the issues of transmission of knowledge are everywhere the same. This project is about the ignorants for whom knowledge, intelligence and education has become a threat and who seek to drag others with them into darkness. For Khelil, the book eaters are thinkers and intellectuals against conservatism and dogmatism. *** bookworms is an artists’ project about book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism, passion and destruction This project is the fruit of a very special encounter with an object… After the death of her grandfather in 2012, Tunisian artist Farah Khelil (b. 1980) explored his library and found an old family dictionary in Arabic (Mo'jam Arabia), at least what was left of it, for it had been devoured by book eaters. She decided to collect some fragments without knowing what she would do with them. Impressed by how carefully cut the pieces were, she wanted to transform them into artworks that would honor the memory of her grandfather. Because she knew how important the book object is in my artistic practice, she showed me the fragments and invited me to participate in an exhibition at the Tunisian gallery A.GORGI in her hometown Sidi Bou Said. I then thought about introducing her to Barbara Denis-Morel, the curator of the Avranches Library. This library conserves, among other treasures, more than 200 medieval manuscripts from the abbey of the Mont Saint-Michel, but it also holds a few books that were entirely devoured. Thanks to the curator, we could consult old books that were infected, quarantined, pierced by galleries and routes that revealed the passage of book-eating insects. We filmed these pages to create a video that we entitled ALL THE MEMORY IN THE WORLD, Toute la mémoire du monde, which is an appropriation of the eponymous film by Alain Resnais. Farah had also kept some intact pages of the devoured dictionary. Then we used this sequence of 120 pages to build the lay-out structure of an artist’s book. The idea was to empty all the textual content —captions and definitions— to keep only the figures, the dropped initials, and the page numbers. The emptied columns of the dictionary were then filled with artistic contributions and texts that we commissioned to invited authors. Printed in an edition of 500 copies, this artist book was made by Farah Khelil and antoine lefebvre editions from the remains of a devoured book. It will be a key element, of this second presentation of the project, and a special edition with a bookstand will produced especially for the fair. Behind the idea of book-eating insects, there is the issue of conservation but also of conservatism, as in Solitaire, an installation Khelil made with a peg solitaire game and mothballs. This work is a “portrait” of her grandfather, Abdelaziz Majdoub, who taught Arabic at the Sadiki High School for a long time where he specialized in “ilm al-kalam,” the science of language. This project is imbued with nostalgia, it is reminder for the artist of the time she spent as a child with this thinker always with his head in books. These encyclopedic pieces transformed into artworks draw the territories and communal places of knowledge. They are extensions of a family memory and reflect a culture going back and forth between book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism. This idea of book destruction is one of the main dangers threatening the library and the books that compose it: fire, water and confinement. But there is also this minor or mediocre scourge that intend to harm the books: the book eaters. This exhibition is a metaphor, a reflection on ignorance, not as opposed to knowledge but as an enemy of knowledge. Ignorance is what attempts to undermine the intelligence, kill or reduce it. Just like the bookworms...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual South Coast - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Mixed Media

Mo'jam
Mo'jam
Price Upon Request

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