Name: R.h. Quaytman: Point De Gaze, Chapter 23, Print
Brand: MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art
Price: 270.00 USD
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MOCA Exhibition: R.H. Quaytman Morning Chapter 30 at MOCA October 16, 2016 - February 6, 2017.

For Texte zur Kunst, R. H. Quaytman has created an object that takes up the design of a book cover. Two motifs appear on the outside, one each on the front and the back; a single motif covers the entire inside. The title, “Point de Gaze, Chapter 23,” refers to the group of paintings the artist is currently working on, and designates a form of Belgian needle lace shown on the back cover. The front contains additional references to Belgium: the woman’s strange hat suggests ornate skull reliquaries created by Belgian Beguines in the fifteenth century. This allusion fits with the words “Sister Scholastic,” the name of a medieval mystic. The headdress returns on the inside, now concealing the head of a human being so that only a naked torso is visible. Scars beneath the breast suggest a sex change has been performed. An abstract vertical pattern also sections the figure. Above the photograph, a line of text quotes from the refrain of a song sung by the Edelweißpiraten, an antifascist resistance group in Nazi Germany. The elements of the collage, that is to say, superimpose different ideas about religious, political, and sexual convictions, weaving them into a subtle and highly associative fabric.

Produced in 2011 for Texte Zur Kunst, Germany
Size: 12.4 × 20.07 inches
Technique: Double-sided Silkscreen Edition of 100 + 20 AP Signed and numbered

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R.h. Quaytman: Point De Gaze, Chapter 23, Print

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