Action 125: Tikrit city, Iraq. Monday, April 14, 2003: M.1-2020

Current Location: Gallery 8

Titles

Action 125: Tikrit city, Iraq. Monday, April 14, 2003

Maker(s)

Artist: Aramesh, Reza
Maker: Demetz Art Studio

Entities

Figure

Description

Hand-carved limewood figure, gessoed, oil-painted and varnished, with glass eyes, three-quarter-life-size

Hand-carved limewood figure, gessoed, oil-painted and varnished, with glass eyes, three-quarter-life-size. A young man with short brown hair, lying on his left side, stripped to the waist and wearing jeans (the right leg of which is ruched up to his knee) above which the band of his white underwear is showing, his hands tied behind his back, lips parted, head tilted to allow him to look upwards.

Notes

History note: Purchased directly from the artist's studio

Legal notes

Acquired with the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum Fund

Measurements and weight

Depth: 50 cm
Height: 30 cm
Width: 156 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (2020-11-27) by Reza Aramesh Studio

Dating

21st Century
Production date: AD 2020

Note

This is version 3 of a unique edition of 3, with white underwear to distinguish it from the other 2 versions (1/3 has red underwear; and version 2/3 blue and white striped underwear).