The Collector of Art
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The Collector of Art (Somewhere in Africa there is a great black man collecting art from Europe and America, buying his Picasso for 23 coconuts…), 1992–2000
Idea of an African hut; sand, zebra skin, coconuts, pineapples, crates; handwritten texts on cardboard tags;
original works by Lichtenstein, Broodthaers, Kosuth, Flavin, Fabro, Filliou, Paolozzi, Viola, anonymous (16th century) etc.; dimensions variable
The idea is in variants of 4
Partage d’exotismes, 5th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, 2000
Photo: Blaise Adilon
Collection Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon