Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 332

Price Realized: $ 6,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,500 - $ 5,500
ACCONCI, VITO (1940- )
Triptych entitled "Rearview #1, #2 and #3." Ferrotyped silver prints, each measuring 9 1/2x7 1/4 inches (24.1x18.4 cm.), overall size 15x30 inches (38.1x76.2 cm.), each with Acconci's initials, title, and date, in ink, on verso. 1969

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An example of one of Acconci's early "performance situations," when he began initiating activities in real space to create visual art. Historian Kate Linker has written that these ". . . actions in the environment were recorded as photoworks, using the newly define aesthetic medium of the camera."