UNO CITY 1992
Langlands & Bell (1955 & 1959 – )
Details
- Dimension
- 745 X 710 MM
- Media
- BLIND EMBOSSED PRINT
- Accession number
- P6069
Summary
This print refers to the conference centre of the United Nations Organisation in Vienna: it shows all the mechanisms of international conference mediation, including press offices and translation booths, and hints at the way hierarchies and ideologies of international dialogue are manifest in this constructed space.
The work comes from the Londonportfolio, one of the most significant British print publications of the 1990s..
Multiple Choice: Prints by Young British Artists, The British Council 1997 Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and The Paragon Press, 1995 (texts by Jeremy Lewison, Patrick Elliott and Duncan Macmillan)