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Michal Rovner

Co-Existence 3

2002

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Michal Rovner

Co-Existence 3

2002

Physical Qualities Inkjet print, pigment-based, 559 × 749 mm. (22 × 29 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Nancy L. Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff, Baltimore
Object Number 2023.187
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2023; Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff, Baltimore by purchase, 2003; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

Artist

Michal Rovner

Israeli, born 1957

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PRINTS, DRAWINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS
STONES: THE END OF ALL EXISTENCES
Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara, and others
Stones: The End of All Existences
1957, published 1960
Areas of Existence
Robert Wirth
Areas of Existence
1954
THE OYSTER. (YOU'LL WAKE ME UP AT DINNER TIME.) BIG, FAT, THICK, PLUMP, GREEDY, WAKES UP ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAKING IN FOOD AND SLEEPS ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIGESTING IT. THE OYSTER DOES NOT EAT FOR LIVING, BUT LIVES FOR EATING. ITS LOCOMOTIVE AND INDUSTRIAL APPARATUS ARE NON EXISTENT. IT VEGETATES ON THE SPOT AND ITS EXISTENCE IS MANIFESTED ONLY BY THE EXACTITUDE, THE NUMBER AND THE QUALITY OF THE MEALS. THE ENTIRE ENERGY OF THE OYSTER IS
Honoré Daumier
The Oyster. (You'll wake me up at dinner time.) Big, fat, thick, plump, greedy, wakes up only for the purpose of taking in food and sleeps only for the purpose of digesting it. The oyster does not eat for living, but lives for eating. Its locomotive and industrial apparatus are non existent. It vegetates on the spot and its existence is manifested only by the exactitude, the number and the quality of the meals. The entire energy of the oyster is located in the stomach. One might call it an animal of pleasure, its only mission in life being to consume without working, while others work without consuming. It seems to be perfectly at ease with this providential mission. (Lacépède – Natural History.)
1837