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Barbara Kruger — This work is unique.
Barbara Kruger

This work is unique.

This work is unique. is a photographic silkscreen on vinyl by Barbara Kruger, characteristic of her bold visual language that merges stark imagery with commanding text. Kruger employs her signature style of black-and-white photography overlaid with declarative language to interrogate concepts of value, authenticity, and commodification in art. The work's self-referential title, rendered in Kruger's iconic Futura Bold typeface, challenges the viewer to question the very notion of uniqueness within systems of reproduction and exchange.

Medium
photographic silkscreen on vinyl

🔨 Auction Lot

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

February 14, 2013

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Barbara Kruger, This work is unique.

This work is unique. is a photographic silkscreen on vinyl by Barbara Kruger, characteristic of her bold visual language that merges stark imagery with commanding text. Kruger employs her signature style of black-and-white photography overlaid with declarative language to interrogate concepts of value, authenticity, and commodification in art. The work's self-referential title, rendered in Kruger's iconic Futura Bold typeface, challenges the viewer to question the very notion of uniqueness within systems of reproduction and exchange.

Medium
photographic silkscreen on vinyl
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Bold, Political, Conceptual, American, Photograph, Text, Silkscreen, Provocative, Black and White, Contemporary

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