Chiharu Shiota Two White Dresses 2015 Heliogravure, Edition of 8, Signed and Numbered
Chiharu Shiota Two White Dresses 2015 Heliogravure, Edition of 8, Signed and Numbered
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Dresses in a Web of Thread
Shiota's installations knot black thread through whole rooms until empty dresses seem to float inside a drawing. This heliogravure brings that world down to a sheet you can hold, with velvet blacks and silvery greys. An edition of eight makes it a rare way into her work.
Best for: Collectors of Shiota and contemporary works on paper
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Good, unused; opened once to check and stored flat.
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Two dresses hang in the dark, caught in a web of black thread: Chiharu Shiota's Two White Dresses, a heliogravure of 2015 offered as signed and numbered from an edition of only eight. Unframed, on a 45 by 35 cm sheet.
The Piece
Shiota is known above all for her room-sized installations, in which thousands of lengths of black or red yarn are knotted through a space until chairs, beds, keys or dresses seem suspended inside a drawing in the air. Empty clothing is one of her lasting subjects, a stand-in for the absent body and for memory.
Here that world is translated into print. A dress glows pale at the centre, a second dress darker beside it, both all but swallowed by a dense mesh of crossing lines. Heliogravure, a photographic intaglio process, gives the image its velvet blacks and soft silvery greys, so the thread reads almost as if it had been etched by hand. The number sits at lower left, the pencil signature at lower right.
Details
- Artist: Chiharu Shiota
- Title: Two White Dresses
- Year: 2015
- Medium: Heliogravure on paper
- Edition: 8 (as stated)
- Signature: Offered as signed and numbered in pencil
- Sheet size: 45 x 35 cm (17.7 x 13.8 in)
- Frame: Unframed sheet
Size as stated; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in).
Condition
- Good, unused condition; the sheet was opened once to check it and has been stored flat since.
- The edition number is masked in the photograph; the Desk will confirm it on request.
- The photograph shows the whole sheet; every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade A (excellent) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Signature, numbering and edition size are as the previous owner states them, and as the photograph shows in pencil below the image.
Frame behind UV-filtering glazing on acid-free mounts, away from direct sun and damp.
Delivery from Japan
The sheet travels flat between rigid boards, never rolled, by EMS or FedEx with tracking. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
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