Liliana Porter
The Gardener
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:38:30 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Liliana Porter
b. 1941
The Gardener
Executed in 2018.
Bronze figurine and figure on shelf
5 × 43 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (12.7 × 109.9 × 26 cm)
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Courtesy of SECRIST | BEACH and the artist
Liliana Porter (b. 1941, Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives in New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores time, memory, and human absurdity through miniature figures and everyday objects—here, a bronze gardener waters shards of porcelain plates. Highly regarded for decades, Porter is a 1980 Guggenheim Fellow with recent solo exhibitions at the ART OMI in Ghent, NY; Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Guadalajara, Mexico; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and El Museo del Barrio, New York. Her work is held in the collections of the Tate Modern, London; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Museo de Bellas Artes de Santiago; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.