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Text: painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)
Each element: 69 x 1 1/4 x 5 inches (175 x 3.2 x 12.5 cm)
Overall size dimensions variable
This installation size: 69 x 90 inches (175.3 x 228.6 cm)
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #26898)
Exhibited: November 2014 – January 2015
Text: painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #25842)
Stamped and dated on an accompanying certificate
Overall dimensions variable
(Inventory #20699)
Peter Downsbrough
Barbara Krakow Gallery, March 7, 2009 – April 15, 2009
Installation dimensions variable
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #28260)
Overall dimensions variable
This installation: 79 x 79 inches (200.7 x 200.7 cm)
(Inventory #23776)
First painted by: Ryan Cross, Barbara Krakow Gallery
First installation: Surface Area September 10, 2011 – October 15, 2011
Text: painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)
40 x 40 inches (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #28092)
Image size: 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches each (20 x 30.2 cm each)
Paper size: 9 11/16 x 13 5/16 inches each (24.6 x 33.8 cm each)
Mat size: 12 5/8 x 16 5/8 inches each (32.1 x 42.2 cm each)
Edition of 4
Signed, dated and titled on reverse on each sheet
(Inventory #27714)
Pipe: painted metal pipe (1/2 inch diameter)
Text: painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)
Installation dimensions variable
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #28261)
Image/paper size: 11 x 8 9/16 inches each (27.9 x 21.7cm each)
Signed and dated on reverse on each sheet
(Inventory #26889)
Each unit is 39 3/8 inches (1 meter) tall
Installation dimensions variable
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #28262)
Image/paper size: 59 x 88 1/2 inches (149.9 x 224.8 cm)
(Inventory #23966)
Image/paper size: 59 x 88 1/2 inches (149.9 x 224.8 cm)
(Inventory #23965)
Image size: 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches each (14.8 x 22.2 cm each)
Overall frame size: 17 3/4 x 35 1/2 inches (45 x 90 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #25139)
Image size: 4 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches each (10.8 x 16.2 cm each)
Overall frame size: 15 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches (40 x 60 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #25136)
Image size: 4 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches each (10.8 x 16.2 cm each)
Overall frame size: 15 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches (40 x 60 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #25135)
Edition of 12
Each: 11.81 x 1.97 x 1.97 inches
Installation dimensions variable
Stamped and numbered on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #17628)
Signed and dated on back
Image/paper size: 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm)
(Inventory #18860)
Image size: 5 15/16 x 9 1/16 inches (15.1 x 23 cm)
Paper size: 11 3/4 x 16 5/8 inches (29.8 x 42.2 cm)
Signed, dated and titled on reverse
(Inventory #27718)
Image size: 10 5/16 x 15 7/16 inches (26.2 x 39.2 cm)
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Frame size: 24 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches (61.3 x 51.4 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #19676)
Image size: 10 1/16 x 15 inches (25.6 x 38.1 cm)
Paper size: 12 x 15 7/8 inches (30.5 x 40.3 cm)
Frame size: 24 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches (61.3 x 51.4 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #19659)
Image size: 10 1/4 x 15 5/16 inches (26 x 38.9 cm)
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.3 cm)
Frame size: 24 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches (61.3 x 51.4 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #19660)
Edition of 9
Stamped and dated on an accompanying certificate
40 x 11 1/4 x 1/2 inches (101.6 x 28.6 x 1.3 cm)
(Inventory #20702)
Edition of 40
Signed and numbered with stamp
Block size: 7 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/8 inches each (18 x 3 x 3 cm each)
Box size: 10 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (26.3 x 4 x 39 cm)
(Inventory #23641)
Image/paper size: 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm)
Signed and dated on back
(Inventory #18867)
Image size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches (16.2 x 24.1 cm)
Paper size: 8 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches (20.6 x 27.3 cm)
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 inches (36.2 x 43.2 cm)
Signed, titled and dated on reverse
(Inventory #28154)
Image size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches (16 x 24 cm)
Paper size: 8 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches (20.6 x 27.3 cm)
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 inches (36.2 x 43.2 cm)
Edition of 5
Signed, titled and dated on reverse
(Inventory #29136)
Image size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches (16 x 24 cm)
Paper size: 8 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches (20.6 x 27.3 cm)
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 inches (36.2 x 43.2 cm)
Edition of 5
Signed, titled and dated on reverse
(Inventory #28159)
Image/paper size: 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches each (45.1 x 45.1 cm each)
Overall size: 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Edition of 5
Signed, numbered and dated on accompanied certificate
(Inventory #27712)
Image/paper size: 16 1/2 x 11 5/8 (42 x 29.5 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil verso
(Inventory #21552)
Image/paper size: 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (20 x 20 cm)
(Inventory #21643)
Image/paper size: 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (20 x 20 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil verso
(Inventory #21641)
Text: painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)
Wooden case with screenprint
Edition of 20
Signed, numbered, titled and dated on accompanying certificate
THE size: 2 3/8 x 15 5/8 x 1 inches (6 x 39.7 x 2.5 cm)
Wooden case size: 4 x 27 1/8 x 4 inches each (10.2 x 68.9 x 10.2 cm each)
(Inventory #25516)
8 1/4 x 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 inches each (21 x 4.8 x 4.8 cm)
(Inventory #19886)
Installation size varies
Closed size: 2 5/8 x 4 3/4 x 1 inches (6.7 x 12.1 x 2.5 cm)
Fully opened size: 2 5/8 x 9 x 1 inches (6.7 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm)
Edition of 15
Signed and dated on reverse in graphite
(Inventory #29452)
Peter Downsbrough developed a strongly reduced visual vocabulary, which he used to investigate the given space in a very personal and precise way. His materials consists of letters and lines. He used adhesive letters, forming conjunctions, prepositions, verbs and/or nouns and applies them to the walls, floors and/or ceilings. Lines, for which he used cloth tape, emphasize certain architectural elements. Metal pipes, in the space and sometimes on the wall, accentuate the space. Areas defined by lines or painted black sometimes play a role, and, with the lines and the words reveal the architecture of interior or exterior spaces.
This rigorous treatment of the space continues in Peter Downsbrough’s books, maquettes, photographs, videos or prints. They all reveal an extreme coherence, which some situate in the minimal and conceptual art movements. In the course of time, the spatial interventions with the parallel vertical pipes or dowels have been complemented with words, lines and planes. Conjunctions such as AS, IF, BUT, FROM, MAAR, OP, EN, ET, OU, MAIS… have a double function: they work as iconographic signs which underline and reveal the space, and they offer the viewer the possibility to go, in his/her mind, from one thought to the other. For a conjunction is a word that can’t be declined or conjugated; it establishes a connection between sentences or parts of sentences.
Peter Downsbrough: With the word, one takes part in a dialogue, a discourse on its precise meaning. The word for me is an object. It has both a precise and a vague meaning. It is a universe one is confronted with. But there is no obligatory way of reading.
