Artist:
Paik, Nam June
Title/Year:
Virtually Wise, 1994
Dimensions:
82 x 66 x 66
Materials:
24 video monitors; 2 antique radios; 6 antique television cabinets; antique
brass telephone; speaker horn; 3 telephones; Howard Wise's personal items:
Polaroid prints, rolodex, brief case, wallet, papers, buttons, etc.; chair
and desk: Sintra, Plexiglas, aluminum, and plywood; 4 laser disc players;
4 laser discs
Year:
agreed 9/20/94
From:
Carl Solway Gallery, paid 11/7/94 Cincinnati, Ohio (original price $100,000)
Owner:
DWB
Location:
Santa Ynez
Exhibited
at: Whitney
Museum exhibition 6/8 - 8/7/94; San Jose Museum 1998 as organized by Whitney
Museum
Comments:
Created for Whitney Museum exhibition "The Howard Wise Gallery: TV as a Creative
Medium, 1969"
Nam June Paik, considered by many to be the father of video art, was born in Seoul, Korea in 1932. He was the first artist employing modern technology to be given a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York. An original member of the Plexus group centered in Europe during the 1 960's, he has had exhibitions in most of the important museums of the world.
Other works in the David Bermant Collection by Nam June Paik: