Lot 6: Dubbed

Ida Ekblad (B. 1980) Dubbed signed with the artist's initials 'I.E' (lower right) concrete and found objects overall: 43½ x 37 x 2¾in. (110.5 x 94 x 7cm.) Executed in 2010

94 x 7cm.

Berlin, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Entschlafen zum Hafen Glück und Leid Vergangenheit, 2010. London, Saatchi Gallery, Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, 2011-2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 37).

Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010.

‘I frequently work with found material. These materials appear in current settings, now, today, and so to me they are contemporary, although their patina, shape and construction might reveal that they were constructed in the ’70s, or in the 18th century, for that matter. In general we get rid of the old and acquire the new, so more often than not, I find “old” artifacts. I am curious about these materials being suggestive of something in the past, and yet gleaned from the remnants of recent political situations’ (I. Ekblad, interview with G. Vecchio, ‘Pure Energy, Deep Poetry’, in Mousse Magazine, reproduced at http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=528).