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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/826-08.jpg
Title	20/50.
Creator	Wilson, Richard (English sculptor, born 1953)
Date	1987
Cultural Context	British English European
Style/Period	Contemporary Postmodern
Theme	Installations (visual works) Architecture (object genre) Sculpture (visual work) Rooms Windows Architectural elements Reflections (perceived properties) Illusion Illusionism Wasteland Industrial landscapes Cultural landscapes Urban blight Urban landscapes Urban land use Deterioration Industrialization Industry (economic concept) Industries (organizations) Manufacturing
Subject	Architecture Sculpture Rooms & spaces Architectural elements Windows Reflections Industrialization Industrial facilities Industry Deterioration Building deterioration
Description	Installation: used sump oil, steel; "The oil uncannily mirrors the ceiling of the gallery, leaving the spectator, figuratively speaking, in mid-air. Although currently installed in the Saatchi Gallery, the work was originally located in Matt's Gallery in East London. In that venue spectators had been able to view urban wasteland from the gallery's windows. The work's aura consequently seemed linked to the decline of manufacturing industries. This was lost in its later setting, where the effect was more streamlined and 'theatrical'. (Caption, p.229); "In 1987 the British artist Richard Wilson […] produced 20/50, now permanently installed in London's Saatchi Collection, in which the viewer walks along a kind of enclosed jetty surrounded, at waist height, by an immense steel trough containing an expanse of impenetrable, glutinous sump oil. The effect is profoundly disorienting." (Excerpt, p.228)
Location Depicted	London (England) England Great Britain United Kingdom
Material	Steel (alloy) Oil (substance) Used sump oil Metal
Measurements	Dimensions variable
Work Type	Installations (visual works)
Repository	Saatchi Collection (London, England, United Kingdom)
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.229, fig.122)
Rights	Photo: Anthony Oliver. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 826-08.jpg
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