1995.540: In Memoriam George Maciunas
MultiplesThe hinged wooden box has stenciled lettering in black paint which reads, “In Memoriam, George Maciunas, Edition Block Berlin.” The box contains a wooden sculpture made of a y-shaped tree branch with eight broken smaller branches attached along its length. There is a wedge-shaped gray felt sculpture, a rectangular length of black paper with a y-shaped design with eight bars drawn across its length, and a print with the photograph of a man wearing a gorilla mask with his hands raised next to his head, palms out, fingers outstretched, thumbs in his ears. It reads, “George Maciunas 1933-1978” “Klavierduett Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik” Fluxus soirée der Galerie René Block in der Aula der Staatlichen Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Freitag, 7 Juli 1978, 20 Uhr.”
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.540
- People
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Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Nam June Paik, American (Seoul, South Korea 1932 - 2006 Miami, FL)
Galerie René Block, Berlin
- Title
- In Memoriam George Maciunas
- Classification
- Multiples
- Work Type
- portfolio, multiple
- Date
- 1984-1986
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/218869
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Portfolio of felt sculpture, wood sculpture, two phonograph records, and screenprint in wood box
- Dimensions
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box closed: 13 × 61.7 × 41 cm (5 1/8 × 24 5/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
box open: 51.5 × 61.7 × 45 cm (20 1/4 × 24 5/16 × 17 11/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: on box lid at c.c., black paint, stencil: IN MEMORIAM / GEORGE MACIUNAS / EDITION BLOCK BERLIN
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Willy and Charlotte Reber, Basel and Valbella Switzerland (after 1986 - 1995); sold to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1995.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 13 / 47
- Standard Reference Number
- Edition Block 48c
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
- Copyright
- © Nam June Paik Estate
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.540
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Victoria Bunting, "Fat, Sulphur, Chocolate, and Blood: Storage Preservation and a Condition Survey for a Large Collection of Works by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim
- Sook-Kyung Lee and Rudolf Frieling, ed., Nam June Paik, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2019), pp. 132, 135, 139, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/20/2022 - 04/24/2023
- Nam June Paik: Screen Play, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/30/2018 - 08/05/2018
- Nam June Paik: The Future is Now, Tate Modern, London, 10/17/2019 - 02/09/2020
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