BRONZE AGE C. 3500 BC – AD 2017 Catalogue

HAUSER & WIRTH

BRONZE AGE C.3500 BC ----- AD 2017

CATALOGUE

5 – 8 October 2017 Frieze London Regent’s Park Booth D10

BRONZE AGE c.3500 BC ----- AD 2017

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or Frieze London 2017, Hauser & Wirth recreates a fictional Bronze Age presentation from a forgotten museum. Realised in collaboration with Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, the booth, titled ‘BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017’, will focus solely on works made of bronze, ranging from artefacts on loan from international museums and private collections nationwide, to sculptures by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Henry Moore and Fausto Melotti, mixed with miscellaneous bronze objects purchased from eBay, masquerading as archaeological finds.

SHORT SWORD 2,200 – 1,500 BC Bronze Length 34.2 width 8.4cm Generously loaned by Museo de Menorca

Mary Beard and Neil Wenman Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Photo: Gordon Beswick

Mary Beard (b. 1955) is an English scholar and classicist. She is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Newnham College, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION, BRUTON, SOMERSET

LOUISE BOURGEOIS Femme 2005 Bronze, silver nitrate patina 14 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm / 5 ½ x 9 x 6 in © The Easton Foundation/VAGA, New York/DACS, London 2017 Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Photo: Christopher Burke

LOUISE BOURGEOIS Untitled 1953, cast 1999 Bronze 150.5 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm / 59 ¼ x 8 1/2 x 8 ½ in © The Easton Foundation/VAGA, New York/DACS, London 2017 Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Photo: Christopher Burke

“Whenever it was made exactly, and whatever it was for, probably nothing could have looked more ordinary or everyday, it’s a nice reminder that it’s not only artists who convert the ordinary objects of life into objects of art. Archaeologists do that too. When they fill museum cases with ordinary things that just happen to be very old for us to look at and admire.”

MARTIN CREED Work No. 1649 2013 Bronze, glass 43.2 x 37.5 x 33 cm / 17 x 14 ¾ x 13 in © Martin Creed Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth / DACS, London 2017 Photo: Genevieve Hanson

“This must be some kind of ritual object, it must have some symbolic significance, and indeed so it might have had.�

WILLEM DE KOONING Untitled #4 1969 Bronze 10.3 x 20.4 x 14 cm / 4 x 8 x 5 1/2 in © The Willem de Kooning Foundation/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2017 Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich

ROMAN BRONZE FIGURINE OF HERCULES 43 – 410 AD Bronze Generously loaned by Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery

ROMAN BATON TERMINAL 43 – 410 AD Copper Alloy Generously loaned by Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery

LATE BRONZE AGE SOCKETED AXEHEAD 2000 – 700 BC Copper Alloy 5.1 x 10.7 cm / 2 x 4 ¼ in Generously loaned by Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery

ROMAN ENAMELED PLATE BROOCH 43 – 410 AD Bronze Generously loaned by Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery

ELISABETH FRINK Untitled (Horse Head) 1962 Graphite on paper 56 x 76 cm / 22 x 29 7/8 in © The Frink Estate Courtesy the estate and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Ken Adlard

SUBODH GUPTA Food for Others 2013 Glass vitrine, wood, 13 bronze potatoes (11 gold plated) Unique 33.5 x 36 x 22.8 cm / 13 1/4 x 14 1/8 x 9 in © Subodh Gupta Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Damian Griffiths

EVA HESSE No title 1961 Gouache and ink on paper 12.1 x 15.2 cm / 4 ¾ x 6 in © The Estate of Eva Hesse Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

JENNY HOLZER Living: It takes a while before you can…

1981 Text on cast bronze plaque 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.9 cm / 8 x 10 x 3/8 in © 2017 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

THOMAS HOUSEAGO Machine Mask I 2012 Bronze 81.3 x 71.6 x 15.2 cm / 32 x 28 x ¼ x 6 in © Thomas Houseago Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

MATTHEW DAY JACKSON Foucault’s Pendulum 2010 Bronze and brass pendulum, cable, turn buckle 30.5 cm / 12 in diameter Pendulum without cable: 30.5 cm / 12 in high © Matthew Day Jackson Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

RASHID JOHNSON Airline 2015 Bronze panel, black soap, wax 125.4 x 100.3 x 3.5 cm / 49 3/8 x 39 ½ x 1 3/8 in © Rashid Johnson Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Martin Parsekian

JOSEPHSOHN Untitled 1973 Brass 57.5 x 33.5 x 24.5 cm / 22 5/8 x 13 ¼ x 9 5/8 in © Josephsohn Estate Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

JOSEPHSOHN Untitled 2000 Brass 29 x 88 x 30 cm / 11 3/8 x 34 5/8 x 11 ¾ in © Josephsohn Estate Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

“A memory object, a souvenir, it shows very nicely how the permanence of bronze can be used to fix forever important moments in somebody’s life… memorialized in bronze.”

BHARTI KHER Warrior Bracelet 2016 Rose Gold plated silver 7 x 34 x 11 cm / 2 ¾ x 13 3/8 x 4 3/8 in © Bharti Kher Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Todd-White Art Photography

ANNA MARIA MAIOLINO Entre Si (Among Itself), from Hilomorfos (Hylomorphs) series 2016 Bronze and iron 144 x 32.5 x 31.5 cm / 56 ¾ x 12 ¾ x 12 3/8 in © Anna Maria Maiolino Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Everton Ballardin

PAUL McCARTHY Santa (with Butt Plug) Bronze 2004 Bronze 110 x 50 x 50 cm / 43 ¼ x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in © Paul McCarthy Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

“It takes us back to the world of 18th century agricultural market wanting to know how much stuff you get for what you pay for and that’s what metal always did.”

“Heavy, patterned, richly decorated. When you wear them… they give you a second skin.”

FAUSTO MELOTTI Scultura n. 11 (Sculpture no. 11) 1934 Bronze 78 x 71 x 15 cm / 30 ¾ x 28 x 5 7/8 in © Fondazione Fausto Melotti, Milano Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

HENRY MOORE Helmet Heads 1950 – 1951 Pencil, chalk, charcoal, wax crayon, watercolour, ink and gouache on paper 29 x 23.5 cm / 11 3/8 x 9 ¼ in © Henry Moore Foundation Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Photo: Mike Bruce

“It’s actually a precious object, not because of what it actually is, but because of what people think of it. It’s a wonderful example of the gap there is between the physical materiality of the object and its meaning.”

MICHELE OKA DONER Plankton 2016 Bronze bracelet set with diamonds 8.5 x 12.2 x 7.2 cm / 3 3/8 x 4 ž x 2 7/8 in Š Michele Oka Doner Courtesy the artist, Marlborough Gallery and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Alex Delfanne

DAVID SMITH Untitled 1959 Bronze 81.3 x 33 x 21.6 cm / 32 x 13 x 8 1/2in © The Estate of David Smith Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Photo: EPW Studio

ANDRÉ THOMKINS Untitled 1968 – 1990 Bronze 17.6 x 9.6 x 9.9 cm / 6 7/8 x 3 ¾ x 3 7/8 in © André Thomkins Estate Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

“How old is it? It’s impossible to say… it could be 1000 BC, could be 1900 AD, that’s one of the things about Bronze, it’s very very hard to date.”

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