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The Serpentine Gallery is currently presenting Leaps Jumps and Bumps, the first solo exhibition of the work of Elaine Sturtevant to be held in a public institution in the UK.
Born in Lakewood, Ohio, in 1930 and based in Paris since the 1990s, Sturtevant has made ground-breaking and enigmatic work since her first exhibitions in New York in the mid-1960s.
Best known for the repetition of works by other artists – including Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp and Felix Gonzalez-Torres – she made her controversial artistic debut in 1965 when she replicated Andy Warhol’s flower paintings, just months after their initial presentation.
She manually reproduced paintings and objects created by her contemporaries with results that can immediately be identified with an original – closely enough to intrigue the viewer and raise the fundamental question, what am I looking at?
Elaine Sturtevant, Leaps Jumps and Bumps
Until 26 August at the Serpentine Gallery, London
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2013/05/sturtevant_leaps_jumps_and_bumps.html
