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Test Pattern: TV Dinner Plate

Artist
General Idea
Date
1988
Format
Multiples
Size
30 × 22.4 × 1 cm
Genre
Rare & Out of Print, Ceramic
Description

TV dinner plate from “The Miss General Idea Pavillion” which was created for an exhibition at the Wacoal Art Centre, Japan, 1988. This multiple reproduces the iconic SMPTE colour bars used in television test patterns, referencing General Idea’s video work Test Tube and returning to the central role of mass media within the collective’s practice.

Rectangular porcelain plate, with test pattern colour bars and a silver rim.

Edition of 238.

  1. Test Pattern TV Dinner Plate
 

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