Temporarily Accessioned / Paul Coldwell

Identifier:FA.SB4.5088

Dimensions: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm

Creation dates:2016

contributor: The Freud Museum London, The Sigmund Freud Museum

Subjects: coats, photobooks, psychoanalysis, radiography, x-ray spectroscopy

Description:Hardcover. Case binding. Pocket inside back cover contains a folded out composite x-ray of Freud's coat. Edition 16 of 150. Inscribed by artist. 

"Temporarily accessioned is a new bookwork by Paul Coldwell made for his forthcoming exhibitions -Setting Memory (6/10/16-7/1/17) at the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna and Temporarily Accessioned –Freud’s Coat Revisited at the Freud Museum London, (22/2/17 to 7/5/17).

On 23rd February 2016, Paul Coldwell arranged for the coat that Professor Sigmund Freud wore for his emigration from Vienna to London to be x-rayed at the National Gallery, London. The book records the performance which involved escorting the coat from 20 Maresfield Gardens (Freud Museum London) to the National Gallery where it was temporarily accessioned and then x-rayed in the photography and imaging department before then being returned. The photographer, Peter Abrahams recorded the day’s events and from these photographs, Coldwell developed the narrative through layering and multi exposure photographic images leading to the production of a life size composite image of the x-rayed coat." -Artist's website