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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Michèle Asprey Collection of Australian Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2013 ~ 4pm
• Lot #:
  1
• Lot Description:
  Patricia Piccinini
  (Born 1965)
  1:00:613.3, from the series Sheen (1998)
  C type photograph; edition 10/60
  image size approx. 120cm high x 240cm wide
  signed and dated 1999 lower right
• Provenance:
  Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Art Gallery of New South Wales 6/9/00-9/11/01
• Notes:
  Born in Sierra Leone in 1965, Patricia Piccinini arrived in Australia with her family at the age of seven. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1991, her work has been widely exhibited nationally internationally and in 2003 she represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale. Piccinini works in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, video, sound, installation and digital prints. Specific works have explored concerns about modern science, biotechnology, such as genetic engineering and ongoing research to map the human genome. She is also fascinated by the mechanisms of consumer culture. She lives and works in Melbourne and is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. The five still images from the series Sheen, titled 1:00.613 , depict a fictional character, 'The Speeder', personifying velocity, within a virtual velodrome. 'The Speeder' is played by Shane Kelly, a world champion cyclist and world record holder for the men's 1000m sprint 1995, 1996 and 1997. In the present image (1:00.613.3), the 'The Speeder' hangs in a strange pictorial suspension, creating uncertainty as to just how he is moving, or indeed if he is moving at all.
• Estimate:
  A$7,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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