La Tupina Restaurant (Tupiña Resto)

Contemporary Art

2008

Bodys Isek Kingelez
Congolese, 1948–2015

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Bodys Isek Kingelez
Title: La Tupina Restaurant (Tupiña Resto)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 2008
Medium: Cardboard, colored and metallic paper, fluorescent paint, felt-tip pen, graphite, colored and glittered tape, colored mylar, plexiglass, plastic straws, stickers, pins and mixed media
Dimensions: 96 × 75 × 41.5 cm (38 × 29 1/2 × 16 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
Reference Number: 2021.32

Natalie Seroussi and Magnin-A, Le Jorunal de la galerie/The Gallery Newspaper, No. 27 (September 2020), n.p. (color ills.).

Paris, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Kings of Kin: Bodys Isek Kingelez, Moké, Chéri Samba, Sept. 12–Oct. 10, 2020, no cat.

The artist; sold to Luc Lauras, Bordeaux, France, 2008 [according to email from Julien Seroussi, January 19, 2021; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Oct., 2020; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, April 13, 2021.

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