Lot 5710* - ibid128 Photography - online only - Thursday, 07. July 2022, 01.00 PM
BILL VIOLA
(New York City 1951-lives and works in New York City)
Hatsu-Yume - First Dream, 1981. With 1 original photograph and 1 original VHS cassette.
Chromogenic colour print on Kodak Professional Paper. 27 × 35.5 cm. Signed, numbered 214/350 and stamped on the verso. Inserted in mat. The VHS cassette with a mounted label, additionally fully signed. Together with text wrapper on glassine paper in cardboard case (42.5 × 34.5 × 5 cm).
"A visual journey of the camera eye through the landscape of Japan, from the rural areas of the far north, location of the 'land of the dead' at Osorezan mountain, to the luminous nocturnal underworld of the streets of modern Tokyo" (flap text).
TOGETHER WITH: USB stick with digitised version of the film.
TOGETHER WITH: USB stick with digitised version of the film.
CHF 800 / 1 200 | (€ 820 / 1 240)
Sold for CHF 750 (including buyer’s premium)
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