Joan Jonas, Safety Curtain, 2014
In 2015 the internationally renowned artist Joan Jonas will officially represent the United States in its national pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
The Vienna State Opera and museum in progress present an exclusive signed and numbered special edition to mark the artist’s design of the Safety Curtain 2014/15. The purchase of this limited edition will help to continue the exhibition in the Vienna State Opera launched in 1998 and will make the purchasers an active part of the project in the sense of Beuys’ “social sculpture”. Joan Jonas' image has been presented at a festive press conference on Friday, 14 November 2014 in the Vienna State Opera and it will be exhibited until the end of June 2015.
Medium: Serigraph, 7 colour coats on Zerkall Lithobütten 270 g
Size: 70 x 47.7 cm
Edition of 155
Signed and numbered
Price: € 770 (including VAT)
This limited edition Joan Jonas print is available at museum in progress
Previous artists creating safety curtains are Barney, Bayrle, Dean, Dragset & Elmgreen, Evans, Hamilton, Hockney, Hohenbüchler, Koons, Lassnig, Oberhuber, Paolini, Tiravanija, Trockel, Twombly, Walker, West. You can see all curtains here
That Richard Hamilton safety curtain is our favorite .... Which is yours .... ???