Lot #2069: PEDRO FRIEDEBERG - Escoge Tu Titulo Preferido I - Color silkscreen

       

Artist: Pedro Friedeberg (Italian/Mexican, b.1936).
Title: "Escoge Tu Titulo Preferido I".
Medium: Color silkscreen.
Date: Composed 1993.
Dimensions: Overall size: 14 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (368 x 295 mm). Image size: 14 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (368 x 295 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $300
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $500/600
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right; numbered lower left. Print #30 of the edition of 100. Cream wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Fine condition. Provenance: Taller Jesusa, Mexico City, Mexico. In addition to Friedeberg, the Jesusa atelier has edited and published works by Tamayo, Goeritz, Felguerez, and Arturo Rivera, among others.
Comment(s): Friedeberg is an artist and designer known for his surrealist work filled with lines, colors, and ancient and religious symbols. His best known object is the “Hand-Chair,” a sculpture/chair designed for people to sit on the palm, using the fingers as back and arm rests. Friedeberg has had a lifelong reputation for being eccentric, and states that art is dead because nothing new is being produced. He was born in Florence as the son of German-Jewish parents, he and his parents escaping from Europe at the beginning of the Second World War, arriving in Mexico when he was three years old. He was not raised Jewish but rather atheist. Once a servant took him in secret to a church to be baptized. He says because of this and other experiences, he has seven religions, one for each day of the week. Friedeberg consults the I-Ching everyday and has a collection of saints. His biography on the Internet includes a passage that reads “I get up at the crack of noon and, after watering my pirañas, I breakfast off things Corinthian. Later in the day I partake in an Ionic lunch followed by a Doric nap. On Tuesdays I sketch a volute or two, and perhaps a pediment, if the mood overtakes me. Wednesday I have set aside for anti-meditation. On Thursdays I usually relax whereas on Friday I write autobiographies." He says that the world lacks eccentrics today because people have returned to being sheep through the consumer culture and television, which wants us all to be the same. Printed and published by Taller Jesusa, Mexico City, Mexico. [27997--300-NA]