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JEFF WALL (b. 1946) SUNKEN AREA color photographic transparency in lightbox 921/8 x 1141/4 x 101/...

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JEFF WALL (b. 1946) SUNKEN AREA color photographic transparency in lightbox 921/8 x 1141/4 x 101/...
JEFF WALL
(b. 1946)
SUNKEN AREA
color photographic transparency
in lightbox
921/8 x 1141/4 x 101/4 in.
(234 x 290 x 26 cm)
executed in 1996
this work is from an edition of two
ESTIMATE: $150,000-200,000

PROVENANCE
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, LONDON

EXHIBITED
FRANKFURT, Museum Für Moderne Kunst, JEFF WALL: FIGURES AND PlaCES: AUSGEWÄHLTE WERKE VON BIS 2000, September 28, 2001-March 3, 2002, pp. 37-38, no. 2 (another example exhibited; illustrated)

LITERATURE
T. de Duve, A. Pelenc and B. Groys, JEFF WALL, LONDON
K. Brougher, JEFF WALL, LOS ANGELES-ZÜRICH, 1997, p. 153 (illustrated)
R. Lauter, et al., JEFF WALL: FIGURES AND PlaCES: AUSGEWÄHLTE WERKE VON BIS 2000, MUNICH-LONDON-NEW YORK, pp. 34-35 (detail), pp. 37-38 (illustrated)
C. van Winkel, JEFF WALL: PHOTOGRAPHS, GÖTTINGEN, 2002,
n.p. (illustrated)
Representational art, like mine, which rests upon a notion of the unbroken continuity of certain aspects of modern culture, must be looked at and experienced through a dialectical understanding of the suspicions that have been brought against the unification of the dramatic space of the picture. My view is that those suspicions have transformed the atmosphere within which representations have meaning in culture, but that they have not withdrawn the legitimacy of the process or technique of - the need for - representation. No alternative has been created; however, all representation, mine included, has been augmented with a kind of critical iconophobia, an inner antagonism which compels representations to rebuild themselves with a different legitimacy.
Jeff Wall quoted in T. Duve, A. Pelenc and B. Groys, eds., JEFF WALL, LONDON, 1996, p. 199