{"id":2486,"date":"2012-06-07T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/index.php\/2012\/06\/07\/art-basel-preview-kienholz-the-potlatch\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:00:59","slug":"art-basel-preview-kienholz-the-potlatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/art-basel-preview-kienholz-the-potlatch","title":{"rendered":"Art Basel Preview: Kienholz &#8220;The Potlatch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-81.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-81.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-81-255x300.jpeg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This year at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=723\">Art Basel<\/a>, we are thrilled to include \u201cThe Potlatch\u201d by Ed and Nancy Reddin Kienholz in our booth. Created by the couple in 1988, this historical work references the Northwest Native-American custom of <em>potlatch<\/em>, a gift-giving festival headed by tribal leaders for the purpose of re-distributing wealth.\u00a0Dressed in full regalia, the central figure is a chief whose head has been replaced by a deer\u2019s head, and is offering up goods through this customary practice of giving.\u00a0This poignant tableau is a statement to the demise of the Native-American people, and casts blame on our history for failing to reciprocate the act of <em>potlatch<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Potlatch\u201d first debuted at Louver New York in 1989. It&nbsp;went on to be included in the pivotal Kienholz retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1996, which traveled to MOCA, Los Angeles, followed by the Berlinische Gallery, Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More recently, the work resurfaced last year in the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=689\">\u201cKienholz: The Signs of the Times\u201d<\/a> at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, which then traveled to the Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=723\">Art Basel is just around the corner and begins June 14th! To learn more about the works we\u2019ll be showing visit our website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year at Art Basel, we are thrilled to include \u201cThe Potlatch\u201d by Ed and Nancy Reddin Kienholz in our booth. 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