Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2025 Art Auction | Hosted by Sotheby's

Barbara Kasten

Crown Hall 1

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Barbara Kasten

b. 1936

Crown Hall 1

Executed in 2019.

Digital chromogenic print

Edition 2 of 3 + 1 artist's proof

54 × 40 1/2 in. (137.2 × 102.9 cm)

Framed: 54 1/4 × 40 3/4 in. (137.8 × 103.5 cm)

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Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York

Using colorful panes of acrylic, architectural elements, and video projections, Barbara Kasten (b. 1936, Chicago, IL; lives in Chicago creates photographs, sculptures, films, and installations that challenge fundamental perceptions of time, space, and place. This photograph, which was taken in Illinois Institute of Technology’s Crown Hall, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, showcases Kasten’s activation of the Mies-designed worktables alongside acrylic elements, resulting in modular abstractions. Kasten has had major exhibitions at the MCA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among other venues. Her work is included in the collections of more than forty-five museums globally.