Lot 213: PAUL PFEIFFER

Poltergeist
This work is number three from an edition of three plus two artist's proofs.

21 x 17 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (53.3 x 44.5 x 44.5 cm)

laser-fused polyamide powder in a wooden, glass, and linen vitrine

2000

Cambridge, MIT List Visual Arts Center, <em>Paul Pfeiffer</em>, February 6 - April 6, 2003; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, May 3 - August 31, 2003 (another example exhibited)

L. Chua, "An Un-home at the End of the World", <em>Paul Pfeiffer</em>, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2003, p. 51 (illustrated)

The Project, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

"The title refers to the movie &#8216;Poltergeist&#8217; and the sculpture specifically is a detail in a scene from the movie, but an important detail I think. The detail it relates to is a moment in the kitchen in this haunted house in the suburbs in California somewhere. Everything seems normal and then one day in the kitchen Mom turns around and finds all the kitchen furniture rearranged, in literally the blink of an eye, into this baroque configuration." - Paul Pfeiffer