VIKTOR WYND (BRITISH): A TERRACOTTA SELF PORTRAIT AS A SUICIDE

A solid terracotta life-cast Victor Wynd head, with bullet hole on the right temple, the photograph of similar theme depicting Victor Wynd with a bullet to the head, framed and glazed, the photograph 19cm wide x 24cm high

Provenance: Viktor Wynd’s Museum, London.

Wynd says "For my last commercial gallery show at Ingalls & Associates in Miami during Art Basel 2006/7, I curated a series of work ‘The Sorrows of Young Wynd’ – sollipsistically paying homage to Goethe – depicting multiple images of myself in ever more ludicrous suicide poses. This death mask, created from a full head cast with the artist Natasha Lawes is accompanied by a framed photo."

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is a contemporary reinterpretation of a Pre-Enlightenment Wunderkabinett or Cabinet of Curiosities. It is the creation of artist and writer Viktor Wynd, who has just opened a Falmouth branch of his museum inside the National Maritime Museum. His most recent book 'The UnNatural History Museum' was published by Prestel in 2020.