Orango Tango

Details

Carsten Höller (B. 1961)
Orango Tango
fibre on silicon rubber, plastic eyes and horn nails
15 3/8 x 44 ½ x 22 ½in. (39 x 113 x 57cm.)
Executed in 2001

Provenance

Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

V. Despret, Bêtes et Hommes, Paris 2007, (illustrated in colour, p. 114).

Special notice

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Descriptif du lot

'I wanted to have an animal that triggered emotions, which is completely meaningless with a rubber-cast sculpture. The idea was that it would be artistically meaningless, even stupid, but emotionally effective, like a trigger' C. Höller.

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