LOT DETAILS

Materials:

aluminium, vintage Olivetti typewriter parts, hologram and mixed media

Measurements:

35.43 in. (90.00 cm.) (height) by 17.72 in. (45.00 cm.) (width) by 16.54 in. (42.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled, dated 2011 and inscribed assemblage con ologramma 54' Biennale Venezia 2011 on the reverse

Exhibited:

Venezia, Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Biennale di Venezia-Padiglione Italia, Oggetti Perturbanti/Perturbing Objects, 2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography, 2012Dora Tass was noticed at the 54th Venice Biennale by the Holography Centre of New York, who invited her for a residency program in 2012. The MIT Museum selected Perturbing Objects, 2011 to be in their show "The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography"

Literature:

In Perturbing Objects (new series), 2014 the holographic typewriter leans against an issue of 'Nouvelles littéraires, artistiques et scientifiques', a French magazine on art, and science that was first published in 1922. Evidently, Dora Tass' holograms are paradoxical assemblages of contrasts between history and modernity, the real and the virtual. Always displayed with irony, and in a museum-style manner, her works are magical apparitions of ghostly-like images resulting from scientific experiments in molecular projections