Francisco Infante (Russian, born 1943) 'Life of a Triangle' from the Artifacts series, artist's proof signed in Cyrillic, titled, inscribed 'artist's proof', and marked with artist's stamp (verso) colour print 50 x 50cm (19 11/16 x 19 11/16in). Footnotes: The present lot is offered with catalogues G. Sonnberger, Russlands Zweite Avantgarde: Schärding Verein zur Förderung Moderner Kunst, Passau Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, 1998, and Art of the Twentieth Century, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2000. (3) Provenance Acquired by the present owner directly from the artist in Moscow Exhibited Passau, Museum Moderner Kunst, Russlands zweite Avantgarde, August - October 1998 Vienna, Albertina im Akademiehof, Kunst im Untergrund: Nonkonformistische Künstler aus der Sowjetunion, December 1999 - February 2000 Literature Exhibition catalogue Russlands zweite Avantgarde, Passau, Museum Moderner Kunst, 1998, illustrated p. 85 M. Mautner Markhof, Kunst im Untergrund: Nonkonformistische Künstler aus der Sowjetunion, Vienna, 1999, illustrated p. 67, no. 5 See also Francisco Infante. Artifacts. Retrospective, Moscow, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2004, p. 165, no. 888. Artifacts is one of the most recognised and extensive series by Francisco Infante. Started in the early 1970s, the photographic series documenting open-air installations explores the relationship between nature and artificial objects. By juxtaposing natural landscape with geometrical mirror constructions, the artist creates an optical illusion of a double reality, environmental and man-made, reflective of one another, while the visible shade of a human head suggests the presence of the artist in both. As Infante explained: 'Where the artifact interacts with nature, a field of play develops. It acts as an organizing principle - a kind of carcass or sphere, inside which one can order the attributes of nature itself: sunlight, three-dimensionality, snow, earth, the sky, etc. The artist, as much as he has inspired this situation, finds himself in the epicentre of this field of play. Through him as through a magnetic centre pass all the force lines of the field.' This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com