Kay Rosen, Sisyphus, 1991

Gold ink printed on purple ribbon, 47.5 x 5 cm, with a safety pin attached. Signed and dated by the artist on verso. Originally created as a video for the 1991 exhibition 'Candyass Carnival' at Stux Gallery in New York City, featuring the work of Cary Leibowitz and friends.

The piece refers to the Greek myth of Sisyphus - a mortal condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity, only to have it roll down again - and to phonetic peculiarities in the English language. On the ribbon, Rosen presents 67 misspellings of the word Sisyphus. Great multiple in unknown edition by the master of language-based art works.