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Steve McQueen, Cold Breath, 1999
Steve McQueen, Cold Breath, 1999
Steve McQueen, Cold Breath, 1999
Steve McQueen, Cold Breath, 1999

Steve McQueen

Cold Breath, 1999
16mm black-and-white film
10 minutes, continuous play
edition of 4 + 1AP
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In Cold breath McQueen wants the viewer to be slightly more aware and sensitive to themselves, their body and their respiration. Numerous elements of a visual and physical pulse assist...
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In Cold breath McQueen wants the viewer to be slightly more aware and sensitive to themselves, their body and their respiration. Numerous elements of a visual and physical pulse assist in creating and maintaining this effect for the viewer. The experience of the body being sensitive to physical, mental, sexual and experimental situations and reacting to them, is the subject of the zoomed in and focused imagery of the film. the camera records the varying natural pulsations, the movement then in the projector, adds to this effect. The viewer s own rhythmic or restrained breathing becomes a third contributory factor to the overall experinece of Cold Breath
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Provenance

The artist

Exhibitions

Steve McQueen: Sunshine State, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy, 31 March - 31 July 2022

Steve McQueen, Tate Modern, London, England, 13 February - 11 May 2020D

ancing with Myself – works from the Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice Italy, 8 April – 16 December 2018

Steve McQueen, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela, 17 September – 26 October 2000; [travelled to: Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa, 16 November – 17 December 2000; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 26 April – 17 June 2001; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, 21 June – 19 August 2001]

Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY, 30 May – 14 July 2000

Beauté in Fabula, Palais des Papes, Avignon, France, 27 May – 1 October 2000

Steve McQueen. Cold Breath, Delfina Project Space, London, England, 4-28 May 2000


Collections

Emanuel Hoffman Foundation, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland

Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy

Kadist Collection, Paris, France

Private collection

Literature

Kim, Clara and Fiontan Moran, eds., Steve McQueen, London: Tate Publishing, 2020pp. 26-33 ill.

Dancing with myself, Venice: Punta della Dogana; Marsillo Editori, 2018 pp. 300-301
I want the screen to be a massive mirror, Basel: Schaulager Basel, Steudler Press, 2013 p. 75 ill.
Steve McQueen: Works, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; Basel: Schaulager Basel; Berlin: Kehrer, 2012 p. 102 ill.

Steve McQueen, Caracas: Sala Mendoza; Cape Town: Institute for Contemporary Art; São Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 2000 (n.p)

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