Location Piece #25 by Douglas Huebler
Douglas Huebler
Location Piece #25
colour lithograph on arches paper
signed, dated 1973 and numbered “49/50” in the lower margin; unframed
Collaborating Printer: Charles Levine/Douglas Huebler
24 x 24 ins ( 61 x 61 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,200.00
Sale date: November 7th 2023
NSCAD Lithography Workshop, NSCAD University, Halifax
Garry Neill Kennedy, “The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978”, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax/The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England, 2012, page 222 ; illustrated page 222
“On March 23, 1973 the artist used a postcard of the Fountain of Trevi to locate the exact point from which the photograph on the postcard had been made. From that location he intended to make a photograph that would be at least as interesting as the original but, as the lens of his camera lacked the capacity to include the entire scene, he was obliged to make six photographs: sections of those were used to form the composite photograph that is reproduced as an aspect of this work.
As reproduction of the postcard itself is forbidden by law its inclusion as another aspect of this work will be in the form of an ‘original’ attached to this print in the box on the right.
The owner of this print must complete its design by mailing his, or her address to the artist whereupon the postcard will be mailed from Rome and, upon its receipt, attached as stated. It will then join with the above reproduction and this statement to constitute the final form of this piece.”
Following Douglas Huebler’s passing in 1997, the collaborative element of this artwork is no longer possible.
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Douglas Huebler
(1924 - 1997)
American Minimal sculptor and pioneer of Conceptual art, Douglas Huebler was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He served in the US Marine Corps in World War II, studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, at Cleveland School of Art and at the Academie Julian in Paris. The artist taught at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, then at Bradford Junior College, Bradford, Massachusetts, and most recently at the Carpenter Center, Harvard University. Huebler's first one-man exhibition was at the Phillips Gallery, Detroit, 1953. He began as a painter, then turned to making Minimal sculpture in formica on wood and was included in the Primary Structures exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, 1966. He made his first experiments with map pieces in 1967, and in 1968-9 gave up making sculpture and began to make series of 'Duration Pieces', 'Variable Pieces' and 'Location Pieces' by treating everyday activities in such a way as to produce documentation in the form of photographs, maps, drawings and descriptive text. Huebler now lives at Truro, Massachusetts.
(Source: Tate)
