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Artworks
Alejandro Diaz American, b. 1963
Ceci n’est pas une pipe, 2007Candelabra arm, acrylic on cast resin
8 x 20 in
20.32 x 50.8 cmEdition 1 of 3 plus 2 APA series of found object sculptures crafted in the late 2000s during the Great Recession evoke surrealist and post-conceptual art practices, speaking to the complex and irrational realities that accompany...A series of found object sculptures crafted in the late 2000s during the Great Recession evoke surrealist and post-conceptual art practices, speaking to the complex and irrational realities that accompany national crises. These concepts find relevance yet again in the Pandemic-era. Ceci n’est pas une pipe reimagines René Magritte’s 1929 painting with a cardboard sign and candelabra.2of 2
