in online exhibition 55 Years of Schellmann Art
L'essence de la rhétorique est dans l'allégorie IV, 1998
From Sequences
Three-part aquatint and heliogravure on Rives BFK rag paper. Each print 40 x 50 cm (15¾ x 19¾ in), signed and numbered on second print. Edition of 60.
EUR 1,750
With this edition, Joseph Kosuth references a René Magritte painting, L'apparition (1928), in which amorphous elements are a repeated motif. These "clouds of language" contain the major concepts of Michel Foucault's essay Ceci n'est pas une pipe from 1973, in which the French philosopher investigated the semiotic character of Magritte's word pictures. Kosuth has described his projects as investigations which examine the conceptual and representational shifts between the identity of words and the reality of things.
