La Pharmacie Bretonne *
Description
Medium: Mixed media sculpture (3-part wooden case, with lockable doors, with 117 glass bottles, filled with spring water)
Size: 107 x 78 x 7.5 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania.
Location
Bucharest
Description
With an impressive artistic career spanning over six decades, Daniel Spoerri (b. 1930, Galați, Romania) is one of the founders of the New Realism movement in Paris, known especially for his snare pictures series (tableaux pièges). Vertical tableaus capture the remains of daily life situations – objects such as leftovers or dirty dishes are mounted on the surfaces that they were found on, and then displayed vertically. The disorderly familiarity of the snare pictures, preserving bits and pieces of reality, were meant to stir uneasiness in the viewer.
Quotidian materials thematically arise in other works such as La pharmacie bretonne (1981), a collection of mineral waters gathered in-situ from 117 springs in Brittany, said to have healing powers, labelled and arranged in a wooden cabinet.
Dedicated solo exhibitions have taken place at the Centre Pompidou Paris, The Guggenheim Museum New York, Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia, Italy, or The Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany, to name a few.
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