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Elmgreen & Dragset โ€” Prada Marfa
Elmgreen & Dragset

Prada Marfa

2012

This artwork references the iconic Prada Marfa installation, a minimalist billboard-style work that blurs the boundaries between art, commerce, and landscape. The piece features bold typography displaying the luxury brand name alongside directional signage suggesting distance and desire. Created as a printed canvas, it captures the conceptual essence of the original roadside artwork that critiques consumer culture and the fashion industry's reach into unexpected spaces. The work engages with themes of institutional critique and the commodification of art through its stark, advertising-like presentation.

Medium
Printed stretched canvas
Dimensions

Notes

Lot 237 in EHC Essentials: Modern and Contemporary on Artsy (May 19, 2026).

๐Ÿ”จ Auction Lot

EHC Essentials: Modern and Contemporary

May 19, 2026

Lot 237

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Elmgreen & Dragset, Prada Marfa, 2012

This artwork references the iconic Prada Marfa installation, a minimalist billboard-style work that blurs the boundaries between art, commerce, and landscape. The piece features bold typography displaying the luxury brand name alongside directional signage suggesting distance and desire. Created as a printed canvas, it captures the conceptual essence of the original roadside artwork that critiques consumer culture and the fashion industry's reach into unexpected spaces. The work engages with themes of institutional critique and the commodification of art through its stark, advertising-like presentation.

Medium
Printed stretched canvas
Dimensions
59.7 x 44.5 x 2.5 cm
Year
2012
Seen at
EHC Fine Art Auction, Unknown

Related themes

Consumer Culture, Irony Humor, Institutional Critique, Luxury Brands, Public Art, Conceptual Art, European Art, Fashion Critique, Printed Canvas, Appropriation Art, Typography, Contemporary Sculpture, Installation Art, Identity Politics, Text Based Art, Commercial Aesthetics, Road Art, Desert Landscape, Minimalism, Twenty First Century

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