Lot 107 | Carsten Höller | Key to the Laboratory of Doubt (for Parkett 77)

Höller, Carsten
1961 BRÜSSEL


Title: Key to the Laboratory of Doubt (for Parkett 77).
Date: 2006.
Technique: In the shape of distorted key and geometric object, each cast in sterling silver, silver chain. In black cardboard box.
Measurement: Key: 9 x 5,5 x 0,5cm, object: 4 x 3 x 2,5cm, length of the chain: ca. 70cm.
Notation: Monogrammed, numbered and inscribed (engraved) on one side of the object.
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: 1/50.


Condition:
The multiple is in very good condition.

With Parkett magazine.

"Doubt and its semantic cousin, perplexity, which are both equally important to me, are unsightly states of mind we'd rather keep under lock and key because we associate them with uneasiness, with a failure of values. But wouldn't it be more accurate to claim the opposite, that certainty in the sense of brazen, untenable affirmation is much more pathetic? It is simply its association with notions of well-being that gives affirmation its current status. What needs to be done is to sever the association between affirmation and well-being."
Carsten Höller interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Parkett no. 77, 2006.

article on work and artist from Parkett edition no. 77.