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Artist or Maker: Daniel Spoerri (b. 1930)

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Description: Hammer-Tisch
signed twice and dated 'Daniel Spoerri, October 1978, 88' and extensively inscribed (on the reverse)
tableau-piège with objects in ceramic, metal, paper, fabric, glazed cigarette butts, bird feet and an electric lamp, all glued over a photographic reproduction of another tableau-piège
31 1/2 x 78 3/8in. (80 x 200.5cm.)
Executed in 1978 and reworked in 1988

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Exhibited: Basel, Felix Handschin, The Hammer-Austellung, September 1978.
Geneva, Galerie Bonnier, Daniel Spoerri: Hammer-Tische, 1990 (illustrated, p. 3).

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Published: Du, die Zeitschrift der Kultur, no.1, 1989 (illustrated in colour in the supplement).

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Notes: The artist defines this as un tableau-piège au carré, a squared trap-picture.

A copy of the literature supplement accompanies this work.

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