Eugenio Dittborn (b. 1943)

Airmail Painting No. 97 Pieta (The Canvas, The Count and The Death)

Details

Eugenio Dittborn (b. 1943)
Airmail Painting No. 97
Pieta (The Canvas, The Count and The Death)
signed and dated 'Eugenio Dittborn 1991-92' and inscribed with title and measurements on the envelopes
paint, charcoal, stitching and photosilkscreen on two sections of woven fabric
28¾ x 110¼in. (210 x 280cm.)

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Latin American Artists of the XXth Century, June.-Sept. 1992. This exhibition later traveled to Seville, Pabellón de Expo Sevilla; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou and Cologne, Kunsthalle.
London, ICA The Mall The Airmail Paintings of Eugenio Dittborn 1984-1992, April-May, 1993, p. 6, n.n. (illustrated). This exhibition later traveled to Southhampton, John Hansard Gallery, August-Sept., 1993 and to New Zealand, Wellington City Art gallery.
Rotterdam, Witte De With, The Airmail Paintings of Eugenio Dittborn 1984-1992, Dec. 1993-Jan. 1994
Caracas, Museo Alejandro Otero, Sin Fronteras Arte Latinoamericano Actual, Nov. 1996-March 1997, p. 45, n. 11 (illustrated in color)

Lot Essay

Between 1984 and 1993 Dittborn produced and circulated 102 Airmail Paintings to points far from each other in the world: Adelaide, Antwerp, Austin, Banff, Brimingham, Boston, Brisbane, Buenos Aires, Cali, Canberra, Caracas, Cleveland, Cologne, Cuenca, Edmonton, Hobart, Kassel, La Havana, Lima, London, Manchester, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Pittsburgh, Rome, Rotterdam, Seville, Sydney, Trujillo, Vancouver, Zurich and Santiago de Chile. On the map of the world, this circulation is like a giant scale writing, these multicolored brushstrokes are paint hanging in the sky in an aeroplane which never finishes arriving.
Eugenio Dittborn--Roadrunner

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