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Details
- Date
- 1976
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- coloured pencil on paper, 12 panels
- Dimensions
- 12 panels: each 50.0 x 64.5 cm sight; 51.5 x 66.0 x 2.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. sheet each work, pencil "PAIK". Not dated.
- Credit
- John Kaldor Family Collection
- Location
- South Building, lower level 1, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- L2010.66.a-l
- Copyright
- © Nam June Paik Estate
- Artist information
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Nam June Paik
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About
While much of Nam June Paik’s practice focused on technology and performance, painting and drawing remained important ways of communicating his ideas. In each panel of 'TV birds' Paik uses colour pencil and black paper to approximate the appearance of a television. A lightly sketched rectangle delineates a screen, while simple ‘v’ shapes indicate birds flying into the distance. The repetition of 12 black panels calls to mind a flip book or stop-motion animation, or a wall of television screens all showing a similar image, such as one might see in an electronics store.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 22 Mar 1976–26 Mar 1976
Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Apr 1976–07 Apr 1976
