Sol LeWitt Print & Tour
Portrait by Steven DiGiovanni
Yale Art Gallery Tour
Yale Center for British Art Tour
Couch by Ezra Parzybok
Set of 10 Factory Photographs
by Angela Strassheim
And artwork by
Anni Albers
Josef Albers
Tom Burkhardt
Tom Friedman
April Gornik
Eric Hongisto
Emily Jacir
Clint Jukkala
Lori Nix
James Prosek
Tom Sachs
Wayne Thiebaud
William Wegman
Fred Wilson
and others to be announced
Tom Sachs
Delux Racing Set, 2003
Mixed media, 12 x 18 x 6"
Estimated value: $700
Tentative starting bid: $300
Tom Sachs, born in New York in 1966, studied at the Architectural Association in London and received his B.A. from Bennington College in Vermont. Best known for his sculptural assemblages, he manipulates images taken from contemporary popular culture to comment on society's commercialism and trendiness. His work has appeared in exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (“Art at the Edge of the Law”) at SITE Santa Fe, at the 2004 Sao Paolo Bienniale, and is in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum. Sachs is one of the recipients of the Marlin guns specially manufactured by Richard Klein as part of Artpsace's Factory Direct: New Haven exhibition. He is represented by Sperone Westwater in Chelsea.
The piece Sachs has donated for the auction is from Nutsy's, an installation first exhibited in New York and subsequently shown at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. Nutsy's is a monumental installation composed of sculptural, mechanical, and video elements that range from reggae music blasting out of loudspeakers to models of Mies van der Rohe's furniture. Included in this made-up world in 1:25 scale are a McDonald's restaurant, a ghetto, a modernist art park, and Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation. These elements are connected by a network of roads that link slums with architectural icons, the lowbrow with the highbrow.
Learn more about Tom Sachs at www.tomsachs.org, where you can watch videos of the Delux Racing Set in action.
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