The Artistic Director of Recipes for Broken Hearts, the first edition of the Bukhara Biennial, looks ahead to the opening in September and shares the inspiration behind her curatorial theme.
Christo, Over the River (Project for Arkansas River, State of Colorado) (2005), $47,400 to $74,500 estimate, is due to be sold at Phillips Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale in London on June 26, 2025. Graphite, enamel, photograph, pastel, tape and map collage on paper laid down on card, in plexiglas box, in 2 parts, 98.5 x 78.3cm. The work has been traded once in the past.
Roy Lichtenstein, Water Lilies - Pink Flower (Study) (1992), $406,200 to $541,600 estimate, is due to be sold at Sotheby's Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in London on June 24, 2025. Cut painted paper, cut printed paper, marker, graphite on paper and aluminium foil on processed and swirled stainless steel, 78.1 x 66.2cm. The work has been traded once in the past.
Luc Tuymans, Corso I (2015), $541,600 to $812,400 estimate, is due to be sold at Sotheby's Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in London on June 24, 2025. Oil on canvas, 249.8 x 184.0cm. The work has been traded once in the past.
The wit, the humour (pigeons sitting outside the racing pigeon shop), the stiff upper lip, the carry on regardless, the working class pantomime of life and death – the public commission flats where people formed caring communities that were destroyed through redevelopment – the integrity of an existence that has largely come and gone pictured with warmth and empathy.
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