SARAH MORRIS

War of Roses, artists' book, plate, fine art pigment print printed on handmade Amalfi paper, text by Sarah Morris, folded 43 x 33 cm. /16.9 x 13 inches, unfolded 42.7 x 263.2 cm. /16.8 x 103.5 inches, edition 50, signed and numbered, 2021

The phrase “War of Roses” refers to a series of fifteenth-century English civil wars for control of the throne of England, a 1989 Hollywood film, the title of a large-scale “Sound Graph” painting by Morris, and a phrase spoken by Kluge to Morris in explaining the contradictory nature of love itself.
This conversation, which was staged by Morris in Munich in the autumn of 2016 as part of her film “Finite and Infinite Games”. Kluge read a script written by Morris based on the James P. Carse’s cult book of the same name. Audio recordings of Kluge’s speech were subsequently used as the starting point for the compositions of Morris’s painting series “Sound Graphs” which highlight how language is a construct, particularly important in relation to art in our ‘post-truth’ age.
This artist book was conceived and created during the spring of the global pandemic. Morris created a leporello of the painting, her visualization of that conversation. She wrote a text to accompany the book, which catapults and contextualizes Morris in a narrative scenario where she receives a gift concealed in a cardboard tube, a Trojan Horse that begins the story.

Lulu [Abu Dhabi], 7 colour silkscreen on 300 gsm Somerset Satin paper, 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches /60 x 60 cm., edition 10, signed and numbered, 2016

Pools - Carillon (Miami), silkscreen on rag paper, 97 x 97 cm./ 38 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches, edition 55, signed and numbered, 2004

Rock Creek (Capital), silkscreen on rag paper, 97 x 97 cm. /38.25 x 38.25 inches, edition 55, signed and numbered, 2002/2009

Paine Webber with Neons, silkscreen on rag paper, 97 x 97 cm. /38 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches, edition 55, signed and numbered, 2009

Rockhopper (Origami), silkscreen on rag paper, 97 x 97 cm. /38 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches, edition 55, signed and numbered, 2009

Miami, Color Referents, portfolio of 9 digital pigment prints on rag paper, 68.5 x 68.5 cm., edition 40, signed and numbered, 2004

portfolio € 4500,-

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We can offer many other works (digital pigment prints, screenprints, several portfolio's, objects and a Wall Work/painting) by SARAH MORRIS. About these works: please contact us for images, availability, prices and other information.