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BARTON LIDICÉ BENEŠ (1942 - 2012)
Untitled (Paintbrush). Shredded currency collage on white wove paper support sheet. 495x357 mm; 19 3/8x14 1/8 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower edge recto. 1983.
Provenance: Private collection, Florida.
Barton Lidicé Beneš was a sculptor and visual artist who worked in materials that he described as artifacts from everyday life. He became well-known for his collection and installations of relics ranging from cremation ashes to shredded money to bodily fluids to found objects to celebrity ephemera. Calling these reliquaries "Museums," Beneš' own apartment also became a larger-scale installation of its own, holding memento mori. A veteran of the AIDS crisis, Beneš' work blended activism, poetry, and resistance, forcing a confrontation with death and fears of transmission. His most controversial work was titled Lethal Weapons and featured objects such as a toy gun, darks, and other found objects filled with his own blood.
