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ADAM FUSS (British, b. 1961) UNTITLED initialed and dated

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ADAM FUSS (British, b. 1961) UNTITLED initialed and dated
ADAM FUSS (British, b. 1961) UNTITLED initialed and dated "AF 1992" in black ink on verso of board unique Cibachrome photogram 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm) 1992 PROVENANCE Robert Miller Gallery, NEW YORK Private Collection, NEW YORK & LONDON Adam Fuss combined an interest in alchemy and an admiration for Jackson Pollock in the present work. A leak in a pinhole camera led him to experiment with photograms around 1986. Fuss not only discovered that the relative translucency and color of the object placed on the paper had an effect, but the actual chemistry of the object itself in contact with the paper altered the final result. He found that animal entrails generated extremely vivid colors. He arrayed the intestines on the paper in a writhing pattern that mimics a Pollock drip painting. This image also calls to mind early illustrated manuscripts in which the clerics added representations of animals to their decorative borders. Photograms including rabbits themselves are extremely rare. Variants of this lot including two rabbits are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This is the only image extant depicting a single rabbit.
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