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Title

Performance, three pieces

1975

Artist

Jan Senbergs

Australia, Latvia

29 Oct 1939 – 2024

  • Details

    Date
    1975
    Media category
    Print
    Materials used
    colour screenprint on BFK Rives paper
    Edition
    unnumbered from edition of 24 (or 25)
    Dimensions
    55.6 x 81.2 cm image; 69.4 x 103.4 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Gift of the artist 2008
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    303.2008
    Copyright
    © Estate of Jan Senbergs/Copyright Agency

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  • About

    "I was really at a stage where I was much more confident in the printing – the technical aspect didn’t worry me so much. I was on a bit of a roll. When I finished in Canberra I also became conscious of it coming to an end. In this print I tried to make it look like a stage set, with a curtain, a doorway or entrance – it's ambiguous. In a stage you have things hanging down or that come down onto the stage, there's some sort of main character, an arch prop, all very abstracted and non-specific – or simply three objects performing …"

    Jan Senbergs
    [Hendrik Kolenberg, Jan Senbergs complete screenprints 1960-88, pg 63]

  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 1 exhibition

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 4 publications

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