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Kelley Walker and Wade Guyton Coconut Lamp 2005 nine coconuts, electrical wiring, light bulbs, and four paint cans with digital inkjet prints paint can: 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (19.7 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm) overall installed dimensions: 18 x 26 1/2 x 22 in. (45.7 x 67.3 x 55.9 cm)
Provenance Greene Naftali Gallery, New York Catalogue Essay From the start of their wildly successful collaboration, Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker have designated their output as art “objects”. Claiming points of departure for their artistic endeavors in the foundations of Dadaism, Surrealism, and Pop Art, each Guyton\Walker undertaking has reinvigorated these traditions in their vibrant imaginations and inventive uses of new technology. Much of their individual and joint artistic output emanates from consumer culture and, much like Warhol’s revolutionary approach to art making during the 1960s, involves reproducing symbolic imagery through the use of contemporary commercial means. Guyton\Walker’s use of scanners and digital printers produces indelible images that are exploding with kaleidoscopic colors and vitality. Guyton\Walker’s Coconut Lamp, 2005, features such recurring motifs as reinvented paint cans branded in Technicolor tones as well as their inclusion of tropical fruits. Coconuts in particular were a heavy visual reference in the twosome’s early silk-screens and inkjet paintings as well as in their hanging coconut chandeliers. The present lot is an evolution of these interests and exists as a hybrid between art installation and functional form. Coconut Lamp, 2005, highlights the interconnected processes of production, consumption, and recycling characteristics of how present day society functions. Guyton\Walker’s work exhibits a generous humor and playful approach to serious formal and material concerns. Read More