Modern, Post War, & Contemporary: Art + Design
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Lot 95
BRUCE CHARLESWORTH / Fate Series #33 (1987)
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Bruce Charlesworth
(Iowa, b. 1950)
#33 (Fate Series), 1987
Cibachrome print
16" x 16"
Presented behind plexiglass in a black frame that measures 26 3/4" x 26 1/2".
Of the Fate series, Charlesworth explained, "I've always been interested in transitional spaces like corridors, waiting rooms, elevators, alleys and highways, as well as the interiors of cars and airplanes. The things that are meant to happen in those spaces are also transitional, or could be thought of as non-events. The imagery of Fate invites a wider narrative interpretation than Trouble. As in the previous series, scenarios are isolated from each other, photograph-to-photograph. The man in the black suit is as much a perpetrator as a victim of circumstance. He falls backward into a hallway, watches a volcano erupt, reads the want ads, climbs through debris and has a drunken vision of pink cartoon rabbits."
Provenance: From the corporate art collection of a Kansas City based Fortune 500 company.
Very good condition, noting some chips to the frame. Not removed from the frame.
(Iowa, b. 1950)
#33 (Fate Series), 1987
Cibachrome print
16" x 16"
Presented behind plexiglass in a black frame that measures 26 3/4" x 26 1/2".
Of the Fate series, Charlesworth explained, "I've always been interested in transitional spaces like corridors, waiting rooms, elevators, alleys and highways, as well as the interiors of cars and airplanes. The things that are meant to happen in those spaces are also transitional, or could be thought of as non-events. The imagery of Fate invites a wider narrative interpretation than Trouble. As in the previous series, scenarios are isolated from each other, photograph-to-photograph. The man in the black suit is as much a perpetrator as a victim of circumstance. He falls backward into a hallway, watches a volcano erupt, reads the want ads, climbs through debris and has a drunken vision of pink cartoon rabbits."
Literature: Private Enemy - Public Eye: The Work of Bruce Charlesworth, 1989, Aperture Publishing (pictured)
Provenance: From the corporate art collection of a Kansas City based Fortune 500 company.
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