
exuberant relative #2
1986
A multi-part assemblage sculpture by Haim Steinbach featuring everyday consumer objects including plastic beverage helmets, toilet brushes, and aluminum beverage cans arranged on laminated wood shelves. The work exemplifies Steinbach's appropriation art practice and commentary on consumer culture.
- Medium
- plastic laminated wood shelf, plastic beverage helmets, plastic toilet brushes, aluminium Budweiser cans and Coca-Cola cans, in 9 parts
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 21, 2020
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Jeff Koons
American · b. 1955

Koons similarly elevates mundane consumer objects like vacuum cleaners and basketballs onto pristine display surfaces, creating sculpture that critiques and celebrates commodity culture with the same deadpan presentation Steinbach employs in arranging toilet brushes and beverage cans.

Ashley Bickerton
American · b. 1959

A fellow Neo-Geo artist who worked directly alongside Steinbach, Bickerton incorporated branded consumer logos and commercial products into wall mounted assemblages that interrogate the same systems of commodity fetishism and late capitalist visual culture seen in this work.

Allan McCollum
American · b. 1944

McCollum arranges serialized surrogate objects in repetitive grid like formations on shelves and surfaces, sharing Steinbach's interest in using display and accumulation strategies to comment on mass production, consumer desire, and the cultural value assigned to everyday things.

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