LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gelatin silver prints, in three parts

Size Notes:

(each)

Edition:

3 of 3

Markings:

(i) signed, dated and with the artist's stamp 'VALIE EXPORT 1976' (lower right); signed with the initials, numbered and inscribed 'AUFLAGE 3 Stuck 3/3 V.E. A' (on the reverse); (ii) signed, titled, dated and with the artist's stamp 'VALIE EXPORT 1976 3 FIGURATIONSZEICHEN' (lower right); signed with the initials, numbered and inscribed 'B AUFLAGE 3 Stuck V.E. 3/3' (on the reverse); (iii) signed, titled, dated and with the artist's stamp '3 FIGURATIONSZEICHEN VALIE EXPORT 1976' (lower right); signed with the initials, numbered and inscribed 'AUFLAGE 3 Stuck 3/3 V.E. C' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Vienna, Galerie nächt St. Stephan, Körpersplitter aus dem hippokrastischen Gesicht der GegenwartI, 1977. Berlin, Studio Galerie Mike Steiner, Dokumente aus Aktionen und Performances, 1978. Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Public Affairs. Von Beuys bis Zittel: Das ffentliche in der Kunst, 2001-2002. Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, 2011-2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 209). This exhibition later travelled to St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.

Literature:

H. Bäcker (ed.), Valie Export, Körpersplitter. Band I. Konfigurationen. Fotografien 1968-1977, Vienna 1980 (illustrated, p. 75). Landesgalerie (eds.), Valie Export, Linz 1992, p. 258 (illustrated, p. 261). R. Mueller, Valie Export, Fragments of Imagination, Bloomington 1994. Valie Export: Mediale Anagramme, exh. cat., Berlin, Academie der Kunste, 2003, p. 35. H. Saxenhuber (ed.), Valie Export, London 2007, p. 27.

Provenance:

Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.