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Three swatches meets Die Kunst - Certain Death (Somebody's Got to Die) meets the beginnings of a costume for a theatre play about a modern day Robin Hood living in Salford UK, 2008
Three packs of coloured playing cards, square black MDF subwoofer
active speaker, MP3 player, felt squares in an array of different shades of green,
cotton, glass lenses.
81 x 23 x 24 cm
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Exhibitions

2009 Heralded as the new black, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL

Three packs of coloured playing cards (1 Daler Rowney oil paint colours, 2 le Coubusier - intellectual colours, 3 Basic web colours) made as packs with coloured sides. Each repeated four times to make large piles. A square black MDF subwoofer active speaker with no treble spaekers playing a cover version of the song 'Somebody got to die' by Biggie Smalls, covered by 'Die Kunst' re-titled 'Certain Death'. Felt squares in an array of different shades of green, piled next to and cut to the same size as the subwoofer speaker. A folded piece of cotton with small yellow stars on a black background, on top of which sit two round glass lenses from the spectacles of Harry Potter. The four stacks are piled in a row.
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Three swatches meets Die Kunst - Certain Death (Somebody's Got to Die) meets the beginnings of a costume for a theatre play about a modern day Robin Hood living in Salford UK
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