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SIMON STARLING
Musselled Moore (Reclining Figure, 1950), 2008
silver gelatin print
image:16.5 cm x 19.5 cm
edition of 50
ESTIMATE: $1,200
Based in Copenhagen, British conceptual artist Simon Starling’s (b. 1967) beautifully inventive works often reference and connect multiple points in the history of Modernism, while drawing relationships to contemporary processes of globalization. Starling himself has described his work as, “A physical manifestation of a thought process.” In past projects such as Le Jardin Suspendu (1998), Starling crafted a radio-controlled airplane from balsa wood, cut from a tree in Ecuador, and flown above a Modernist villa in Melbourne, Australia. His 2007 exhibition at Presentation House Gallery featured Wilhelm Noack oHG, an elaborate sculpture and film installation that documents the interior of the Berlin metal manufacturing firm that fabricated the sculpture itself.
Musselled Moore (Reclining Figure, 1950) was created in parallel with Simon Starling’s 2008 solo exhibition at The Power Plant in Toronto, Cuttings (Supplement). The photograph documents a maquette for Starling’s sculpture Infestation Piece (Musselled Moore) now in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
In 2004, Starling was short listed for the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Prize, and in 2005 he won the Tate Gallery’s prestigious Turner Prize He is represented by Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York; Galleria Franco Noero, Turin; The Modern Institute, Glasgow; and Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
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