Gabriel Orozco La DS Cornaline 2013 Moderna Museet Exhibition Poster, 70 x 100 cm
Gabriel Orozco La DS Cornaline 2013 Moderna Museet Exhibition Poster, 70 x 100 cm
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A Car Made Impossible
Orozco slims a design icon into a beautiful, useless object. The poster's head-on view makes the change feel almost like a trick of the eye.
Best for: Design lovers, car enthusiasts and collectors of conceptual art
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Described as unused, opened only to check; small marks or light rubbing may be present.
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A red Citroen DS faces us head on in a bare concrete room, impossibly narrow, its headlamps set almost touching: Gabriel Orozco's La DS Cornaline of 2013, on an exhibition poster from Moderna Museet.
The Piece
In 1993 the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco took a Citroen DS, the car Roland Barthes once compared to a cathedral, cut it lengthwise into three, removed the middle section and joined the two outer parts. The result, La DS, kept every curve of the famous design while making it useless as a car and strange as an object. Twenty years later he returned to the idea with La DS Cornaline, named for the deep carnelian red of its paint.
The photograph on this poster makes the narrowing almost uncanny, the grille and bumper squeezed to a sliver. Below, the Moderna Museet name runs in the museum's own handwritten logotype in magenta.
The poster is unsigned and an open edition. It is described as a Nordic museum's exhibition poster, acquired from the publisher, and kept unused since.
Details
- Artist: Gabriel Orozco
- Image: La DS Cornaline, 2013
- Institution: Moderna Museet
- Medium: Offset print poster
- Edition: Open; not numbered
- Signature: Unsigned
- Sheet: 70 x 100 cm (27.6 x 39.4 in)
- Frame: Unframed
- Condition: Unused
Condition
- Described as unused, opened only to check the contents.
- The description notes that small marks or light rubbing may be present.
Condition grade S (unused, as new) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
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Details are given as the description states them. Frame behind UV-filtering glazing with acid-free mounts, and hang away from sun and damp.
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