Artwork

First Communion / L'ubo Stacho

1995
slide IRC.2012.02086 (old number: STA.L-F001) showing L'ubo Stacho's installation, First Communion, at the Mattress Factory, 1995.
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Identifier

IWC.1995.558

Materials

canvas, clothes line, clothes pins, color Xerox transfers

Description
A companion piece hung in the garden: a clothes line with canvas portraits of young Slovakians, taken before and after their first communion.
Artist Statement
Spirit, Secret, Mystery, Religion. These are things in which I am interested; what is inside. I like to balance on the edge. Where is irony, where is truth? I baptized 200 Americans in my mind. The shroud of Turin is a print from Christ’s face, a photograph is a print from the light. In both cases it is energy transmission. I am interested in this transmission.
October 29, 1995 – July 31, 1996