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Lot 116: Adam Chodzko (b. 1965)

Est: £4,000 GBP - £6,000 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 20, 2012

Item Overview

Description

Adam Chodzko (b. 1965)
The God Look-Alike Contest
black and white photographs, colour photographs, colour photocopy, ink on paper drawing, ad page from the LOOT newspaper, each in artist's frame, in thirteen parts
each: 22½ x 17½in. (57 x 44.5cm.)
Executed in 1992-1993 (13)

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, "Brilliant!" New Art From London, 1996. This exhibition later travelled to Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, 1997 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
London, Saatchi Gallery, I Am a Camera, 2001 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
San Francisco, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, General Ideas, 2003.
Aspen, Aspen Art Museum, Belief and Doubt, 2006.

Literature

High Fidelity, exh. cat., Nagoya, Kohji Ogura Gallery, 1993 (illustrated, pp. 41-43).
S. Grant, 'Playing God', in Art Monthly, no. 189, September 1995 (illustrated, pp. 28-29).
J. Roberts, 'Adult Fun', in Frieze, vol. 31, 1996 (illustrated, p. 64).
J. Higgie and M. Bracewel, Adam Chodzko, Minneapolis 1999 (illustrated, pp. 11-13).
L. Le Feuvre, M. Herbert and A. Wilson, Adam Chodzko: Proxigean Tide, London 2008 (illustrated, pp. 114-117).

Provenance

Lisson Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994.

Auction Details

Post War and Contemporary Art 1990 To Now

by
Christie's
November 20, 2012, 01:00 PM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK