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Alfons Schilling (1934 – 2013)
»Chicago Riot 1970«, USA, 1970
From the series »Burning Cars«
Edition Information
Unique
Item number 063-05250
The »Burning Cars« series is based on Alfons Schilling's documentation of riots following the last-minute cancellation of a concert by »Sly and the Family Stone« in Chicago in 1970, during which several vehicles were set on fire. Schilling recorded the events with a film camera in color and used selected frames from the filmstrip for his Lenticular works. All known examples of this series show color alterations now, caused by specific chemical changes in the material used - nevertheless, the red tone intensifies the effect of blazing fire in the pictures.
In these works, the narrative anecdotal structure of the 1968 protest lenticular photos is replaced with monumentalisation. The popular sensationalist appeal of the »Burning Cars« recalls Andy Warhol's »Car Crashes« in the early 1960s. Like Warhol, Schilling takes the vehicles, turned uselessly upside-down, out of their narrative context and elevates them to the status of symbols. For Schilling they become icons of an era of social change, in which not only relationships but also ways of seeing were turned on their head.
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Vintage Lenticular photography on Kodak paper
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Image dimensions 69,3 x 57,7 cm (69,3 x 57,7 inch)
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Mounting, Framing Mounted in silver metal frame 69.5 x 57.8 cm
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Annotations
Label of the estate archive with handwritten title and archive number »LL01« on the reverse, certificate of authenticity from the artist's estate archive enclosed -
Literature
Alfons Schilling, Ich / Auge / Welt - The Art of Vision, Vienna, New York 1997; Alfons Schilling, Beyond Photography, cat. WestLicht Vienna 2017, p. 80f. (same series). -
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