Category: Collection of works: Who's Boss

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted, H 56 cm x B 77 cm (Edition of 7) Insur­ance value 2,000 Euro Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candi­date at Leiden Univer­sity, Insti­tute for Cultural Disci­plines (NL). The filmed process of Tanya Ury’s body art embroi­dery and […]

Work in Progress Since November 1992, Tanya Ury has been collecting her hair, from natural hair loss daily, and saving it in small plastic sachets (90mm x 115mm), with a hand­written date label. Previ­ously, some of these bags were sewn together by her, to make large plastic sheets resem­bling​“shower curtains”, one curtain each year, for the […]

A series of wooden-framed photographs, each: upright format W 38.13 x H 42 cm, land­scape format B 51,63 x H 28 cm (Edition of 7) Concept Tanya Ury Camera: Tanya Ury Digital processing: Claudia Stasch and Ingolf Pink Insur­ance value: each picture 1,000 Euros Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Humanities […]

A photo­graph H 66 x B 77 (Edition 7), offset print lami­nated and lami­nated on the rear side with 3mm Dibond Infor­ma­tion Concept and photog­raphy: Tanya Ury Digital image processing: Ingolf Pink shower proof is an artist’s impres­sion of the Hair Shirt Army in the vault of EL-DE-Haus, the Nazi Docu­men­ta­tion Centre, Cologne (D), produced before the installation […]

A photo­graph, lami­nated and backed with 3mm Dibond, H 45 x W 30.5 cm (Edition of 7) Insur­ance value 1,000 Euros Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candi­date at Leiden Univer­sity, Insti­tute for Cultural Disci­plines (NL) In the summer of 2006 Hugo Boss produced a new […]

A perfor­mance video (D) 52 minutes, Analogue Beta SP, PAL 4:3 2005 Trailer 3.30 Minutes Insur­ance value DVD: 200 €uro Close-up video images show Ury’s right-hand stitching the word​“Boss” into the palm of her left-hand; the thin sewing needle, threaded with fine black cotton, does not incur any bleeding. Röslein Sprach… the video title (trans.: […]

19 Men’s coats (German) size 56 Insur­ance price 30,000 Euros Arti­cles of clothing made of small plastic bags sewn together; each bag (90mm x 115mm) contains a date label and sample of the artist’s hair from 1993 – 2013. The orig­inal Hair Shirt is fash­ioned after a leather Luft­waffe coat design and bears simi­lar­i­ties to the Hugo Boss leather coat, winter […]

Man’s coat (German) size 56 Insur­ance value 1,500 Euros Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candi­date at Leiden Univer­sity, Insti­tute for Cultural Disci­plines (NL) An article of clothing made of small plastic bags sewn together; each bag (90mm x 115mm) contains a date label […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted, (56cm x 94.5cm) Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candi­date at Leiden Univer­sity, Insti­tute for Cultural Disci­plines (NL) The photo­graph combines a German news­paper article (2000) on Hugo Boss the fashion concern and its origins […]

2 photographs, red and orange, sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted photo­graph H 46,3 cm x B 30 cm (Edition of 7) (Format 20,513) As T‑shirt: logo H 20 cm x 30 cm, White short-sleeved Price 500 Euro Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candi­date at Leiden University, […]

Repro­duc­tions of 15 Hugo Boss post­cards of 1998 – 99 winter fashion, and repro­duc­tions of 4 post­cards with illus­tra­tions of Spanish soldiers and their sweet­hearts from the 1960’s (or 70’s) are sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted. Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candidate […]

Web site: www​.tanyaury​.com A photo­series of four: 1. Art Prize 1996 2. Art Prize 1998 3. Art Prize 2000 4. Art Prize 2002 4 photographs sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted Photographs: H 55 cm x B 122.5 cm (Edition of 7) (Edition of 7: H 45 cm x B 100 cm) Format: 1 x 2.227 Insur­ance value Each picture 2,500 €uro (x4 = 10,000 €uro) Since […]

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