In his work Pieter Engels takes the mechanisms of the art world with a pinch of salt. With his fictitious Engels Product Organisation he produces works of art that can be ordered by way of a catalogue. The work shown here ridicules (the value of) traditional painting. Instead of a canvas there is emptiness - the emperor’s clothes. In 1975 Renilde Hammacher staged The Selfportrait of This Century, a solo exhibition of Engels’s work.
Specifications
| Title | Modern Art (Seascape) Piece (The Clothes of the Emperor) |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Wood, Formica laminate, aluminium |
| Object type |
Wall object
> Three-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Width 200 cm Height 190 cm Depth 10 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Pieter Engels
|
| Accession number | BEK 1468 (MK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1971 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1970 |
| Creation date | in 1967 |
| Internal exhibitions |
De metamorfose van het object (1971) |
| External exhibitions |
Pieter Engels (2010) |
| Research |
Show research Digitising Contemporary Art |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
