Pharmacie, 1996
From Wall Works
Two industrial lamps (cast aluminum with red and green glass) on a mauve-painted wall. Lamps 22 x 11 x 13 cm (9 x 4½ x 5 in), installation size according to the wall. Limited to 12 installations, with a signed and numbered certificate.
EUR 12,000
This wall work edition is inspired by Pharmacie, an early assisted readymade by Marcel Duchamp. Riding an evening train from Paris to Rouen, he saw in the distance a pair of lit windows. Soon afterward he bought three copies of a banal landscape at an artist supply store and painted a red and green dot on each, suggesting the jars of colored liquids in the windows of French pharmacies. Levine used this minimal artistic gesture as a point of departure for the austere and poetic wall installation of the same title.
