The impossibility of losing in the mind of someone winning
2007
160.0 x 95.0 cm
Ian Potter Museum of Art
Winners are grinners, so the saying goes. And with victory comes the totems of achievements, the strangely heraldic forms of the trophy accompanied by the peculiarly telegraphic texts of engraved plaques. In trophies found in junk shops, Elvis Richardson discovers a trove of psychological and historical evocations. The accumulated horde of trophies is like the booty of Roman triumph. The recipients now represent an anonymous roll call of aspiration and achievement. Did these moments change or fulfil the lives of the winners? If so, why were the trophies abandoned? In a tribute to the fighting spirit of a lost nation of competitors, Richardson constructs an honour roll of her own. The trophy may signal the completion of a contest but Richardson focuses on the aspiration that drives the competitors; each of them wants to scale the mountain and take the prize, each of them knows that a trophy represents a title that must be fought for again next season.
Elvis Richardson (1965 –)
Explore Elvis Richardson's interdisciplinary art – revaluing found objects & celebrating women artists through the Countess Report. Melbourne-based artist, PhD holder.
Ian Potter Museum of Art (Carlton, Australia)
The Ian Potter Museum of Art is a learning museum of the University of Melbourne, situated at the Parkville Campus. Admission is free. The Potter Museum of Art and The University of Melbourne acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we work and create. Continue
작품 정보
- 제목: The impossibility of losing in the mind of someone winning
- 작가: Elvis Richardson
- 제작 연도: 2007
- 원래 크기: 160.0 x 95.0 cm
- 매체: Landscape
- 저작권 상태: 저작권 보호 중
- 소장처: Ian Potter Museum of Art
- 색상 팔레트: Neutrals
- 체감 밝기: brilliant