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2023

  • We exhibited this object.

  • Work on this object began.

2024

2025

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Studies, Sphere, 2023

This is a Studies. It is dated 2023. Its medium is mixed media on paper; staged 2023, u2:uv achtung baby live at sphere, las vegas, nevada, usa . It is a part of the department.

“I made this series of paintings at my kitchen table while talking through ideas with U2’s director Willie Williams. The paintings are based on concepts we developed for the band’s inaugural residency at the new Sphere venue in Las Vegas. We aimed to cast the Sphere in concrete, to declare its weighty materiality, then to split it apart to reveal a Las Vegas that eventually unbuilt itself. We called the final sequence ‘Nevada Ark.’ It dedicated the building to Nevada’s endangered species.”

It is credited Courtesy of Es Devlin.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin.

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