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CARSTEN HÖLLER (B. 1961)
Albinia Two Carousels
signed, numbered and dated 'Carsten Höller 2005 2/3' (on the reverse)
c-print mounted on aluminum
image: 36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm.)
sheet: 46¼ x 58¾ in. (117.5 x 149.2 cm.)
Executed in 2005. This work is number two from an edition of three.

Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
B. Mak and E. Smith, Carsten Höller 2001-2010: 184 Objects, Experiments, Events, Ostfildern, 2010, p. 148 (another example illustrated).

Exhibited
London, Gagosian Gallery, Carsten Höller: Logic, September-October 2005, p. 15 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

The brilliantly confusing and amusing Carsten Höller defies any attempt to categorize what type of artist he is and, in fact, he began his career as a scientist studying insects. Höller has referred to his work that includes sculpture, installation, performance art and photography as "confusion machines." Höller toys with our visual perception and has long been intrigued by the constructions and trappings of child's play. "Experience," the 2012 retrospective at The New Museum in New York featured a giant slide among the works that helped make the show the museum's most popular ever. Höller has also created his own carousels, one of which was on view at the Gagosian gallery in London in 2005 and called "a spectacular, surprising, pleasurable - and intentionally pleasure-giving - object," by The Guardian. Albinia Two Carousels, from his 2005 series of photographs of amusements parks and rides around the globe, is a simpler yet exquisite expression of the artist's affinity toward the experiences and images that delight us.

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