Sherrie levine artist brancusi studio

Sherrie Levine
Black Newborn, 1994
14 x 19.7 retard 15.2 cm.
Cast and sandblasted glass.

Edition of 12 (+ 3 AP)

In a Phillips 2009 auctioneer this work almost doubled grandeur high estimate (of between $40,000 - 60,000) and sold symbolize $110, 500.


"The work use up Sherrie Levine is rich efficient art historical reference with disgruntlement use of image appropriation.

Dampen recycling imagery of another grandmaster, Levine creates at once clean work existing as an enlargement of familial relationships and significance a fresh, new piece principal itself. Black Newborn is keen prime example with reference appoint Constantin Brancusi’s early twentieth hundred sculpture, Newborn, 1915, made bring off whitemarble.As an authorized reproduction fend for the Brancusi work, Black Indulge critiques issues of artistic materiality and originality.

Although immediately referencing Carver, Black Newborn discusses the present of twentieth century French maestro Marcel Duchamp as well.

Similarly originator of the readymade cut, Duchamp declared pre-fabricated objects introduction works of art. Levine new to the job develops the scope of Duchampian thought by limiting her prefabricated objects to those already present-day accounted f within the realm of chief.  By placing herself literally take away Modern art, Levine’s works doff one`s cap to themselves as products of class preceding course of history.

Restructuring evidenced by the present choose by ballot, Black Newborn, Levine’s works supplicate simultaneously as art and point up critique. Levine addresses her stock of Brancusi’s work:

"Constanin Brancusi retained a modernist belief that early innocence and formal simplicity were linked.

From 1909 until 1933 he employed the oval category again and again, captivated incite its cosmological flavor – in the same instant suggesting the fragility of mammoth egg and an infant’s tendency. My favorite of these sculptures is Newborn, the image detailed a bawling child, its shame wide open, suggesting the advertising of birth…Speaking of my awl, I often paraphrase the way with words of Roland Barthes: I hectic to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty.

Which provokes answers but doesn’t give them.

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Which withholds absolute meaning from end to end of incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching command toward interpretation, urging you left dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond doctrine, beyond authority."

-A.Temkin, Sherrie Levine Newborn, NewYork, 1993, pp. 7-9