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Bottle

Bottle

  • Place of origin:

    Great Britain, UK (made)

  • Date:

    1994 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Horn, Rebecca, born 1944 (artist)
    Becks (manufacturer)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Glass, offset lithograph on paper

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Riikka Kuittinen

  • Museum number:

    E.219-2005

  • Gallery location:

    National Art Library, room 76, case 14

  • Image in copyright

The beer-brewing company Beck's is well-established as a sponsor of contemporary art events. Since 1985 they have commemorated their major sponsorships and exhibition openings by inviting artists to create limited edition labels, in order to identify their brand image with the perceived attributes of contemporary art - cool, original, young, irreverent, controversial and talked-about.

Each label offers us a miniature ‘snapshot’ of the artist’s characteristic style and subject. Rebecca Horn's label suggests a relation to her kinetic sculptures which produce sounds or generate ‘paintings’ by mechanical gestures of pouring or spilling.

Physical description

Green glass bottle with two paper labels.

Place of Origin

Great Britain, UK (made)

Date

1994 (made)

Artist/maker

Horn, Rebecca, born 1944 (artist)
Becks (manufacturer)

Materials and Techniques

Glass, offset lithograph on paper

Object history note

This label for Becks beer was designed for Rebecca Horn's exhibition in 1994-95 at the Tate and Serpentine galleries. Sponsored by Becks beer.

Descriptive line

Limited edition Becks beer bottle with a label designed by Rebecca Horn, British, 1994.

Materials

Glass

Subjects depicted

Bottle; Packaging

Categories

Glass; Prints; Advertising; Artists' multiples; Labels & packaging; Ephemera

Collection code

PDP

Qr_O110754
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