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Self Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man

Self Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man Self Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man

1982

10”x8” reflection hologram on glass
(test plate for the head)

Provenance: Adrian Lines Archive, gift of Paul Lines

Margaret Benyon wrote in The Creative Holography Index:

“He is most likely to be remembered by his ‘Self Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man’ because it was prophetic of his early death. Holographic casts of Adrian’s naked body were assembled in a coffin and carried through the streets of London in a funeral cortege. The piece resembles the ancient Chinese mortuary figure of the Han dynasty, the Jade Princess’, with its bizarre suit of greenish flat plates.”

 

Full installation with multiple reflection holograms and physical coffin

Invitation to 1982 "Sombre Viewing" in London

 

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