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Puppet by Chris Curreri

Artwork by Chris Curreri, Puppet

Chris Curreri
Puppet

five c-prints
each signed, dated 2008 and numbered 1/10 on an artist label on the mount on the reverse; each matted and unframed. Contained in a black portfolio box
8 x 11 in ( 20.3 x 27.9 cm ) ( each image )

Auction Estimate: $2,000.00$1,000.00 - $2,000.00

Price Realized $960.00
Sale date: March 25th 2025

Provenance:
Diaz Contemporary, Toronto
Estate of Robert Noakes
Chris Curreri’s “Puppet”  photographs capture a man contorting around and using a single red vase in various ways. These photographs capture a performance, as the vase holds the place of whatever the person decides to enact with it, symbolic of attempts to define relationships, forced interactions and redefinition. This project highlights a thread in Curreri's work that “points to the idea that ideas themselves are malleable and that it is we, in our actions, who determine our relationship to things.”

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Chris Curreri
(1978-)

HighlightsWatch Artist

Chris Curreri is a Canadian multimedia artist who works primarily with film, photography and sculpture. His work is anchored in a unique reception of the world, as he identifies things around him not by their individual properties but by the relationships we establish with them. This relational approach allows Curreri to proscribe new properties and meaning to his subject matter. 

Curreri holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College, obtained in 2007. He has also studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Curreri’s film works have been screened at various film festivals across the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival and Image Forum Festival in Japan. His artwork has been featured in various private collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.