installation view at Galerie Lange + Pult in Zürich raw oil paint on sewn canvas tarpaulins each 36" x 36 inches / 91,5cm x 91,5cm
Vintage
"Château Mouton Rothschild 1945", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"Château Cheval Blanc 1947", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"Château Angelus 1990", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"Château La Conseillante Pomerol 1990", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"Château Latour Pauillac 1982", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"Pétrus Pomerol 2000", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"La Tâche Domaine De La Romanée-Conti 1991", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"Château Ausone 2010", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"Château Margaux Premier Grand Cru Classé 2015", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"Romanée-Conti 1996", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"Château Haut-Brion 2000", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
"Château Lafite Rothschild 1982", 2016 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
Oil on linen, with dust 24” x 36 inches / 61cm x 91,5cm Romanée-Conti 1989 This vintage fine wine from the Burgundy region of France is painted in a vertical portrait position and then stored hanging in the proper sideways landscape manner. The Methuselah size holds 6 litres or the equivalent of 8 bottles. This larger size retains content longer as there is less oxygen trapped in the neck compared to the standard size bottles. ** this bottle sold at auction in 2013 at Sotheby's for $110,000usd
"Domaine Armand Rousseau Chambertin Grand Cru 2011", 2018 Oil on linen, dust 12" x 18 inches 30.48cm x 45.72cm
And no person who drinks old wine then desires the new, for they say “The old is better” (Luke 5:39)
These vintage fine wines from France are painted in a vertical portrait position and then stored hanging in the proper sideways landscape manner. Either openly displayed with a connoisseur pride or safe-kept on racks or conserved inside wooden crates in a freeport-esque cellar, this dust collection of investment time-pieces when enjoyed at maturity rewards the persevered resistance to an indulgence of uncorked fleeting consumption.
2 half-dozens of Vintages (installed at MKG127 Nov./Dec. 2016)