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Kissing Chancre

Kissing Chancre
Kissing Chancre
Gesamtansicht, Voransicht
Kissing Chancre
Helen Chadwick, Kissing Chancre, 1989, Leuchtkasten, zwei Cibachrome-Dias, Leder, Tulpenholz, Sperrholz, elektrisches Gerät, 76 × 122 × 25,4 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 12393
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • Kissing Chancre

  • Date1989
    • Artist Helen Chadwick (1957 London – 1996 London)
  • Object typeWall object
  • MediumLeuchtkasten, zwei Cibachrome-Dias, Leder, Tulpenholz, Sperrholz, elektrisches Gerät
  • Dimensions
    76 × 122 × 25,4 cm
  • SignatureEdition 2/3
  • Inventory number12393
  • Location Belvedere 21
  • Credit LineAnkauf von der Richard Saltoun Gallery / der Künstlerin

  • At the height of the global AIDS crisis in the late 1980s, British sculptor, photographer, and installation artist Helen Chadwick increasingly focused on processes occurring within the body. The two organically shaped, brightly illuminated elements of Kissing Chancre, which seem to approach each other, feature close-up photographs of bodily tissues. A chancre is an ulcer or a sharply defined sore associated with sexually transmitted diseases. As in much of Chadwick’s work, beauty confronts disgust, the sensual merges with the disturbing, and the seductive coexists with the repellent. In Austria, Chadwick profoundly influenced a younger generation through her extensive teaching and achieved widespread recognition through a solo exhibition presented as part of the 1993 edition of the steirischer herbst festival.
    • 2026 Ankauf Richard Saltoun Gallery, London / Helen Chadwick, London
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