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PLA©EBO (Helium)

Artist
General Idea
Date
1992
Format
Multiples
Size
87 × 46 cm
Genre
Rare & Out of Print
Description

Three pill-shaped balloons in metallic red/green, green/blue, and blue/red, printed with the PLA©EBO logo. The installation PLA©EBO (Helium), comprised of between 4500 and 4800 helium-filled balloons, was first shown in the exhibition Expanded Art Wiener Festwochen, and installed in the Westbahnhof U-Bahn Station, Vienna, in 1992. It was recreated for AA Bronson’s exhibition Negative Thoughts at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in 2001.

Signed and numbered edition of 250.

  1. Placebo Helium
  2. Placebo Helium 2
Images: 1 2
 

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