Bloom, Barbara. BROKEN (Two leaf chopstick holders). Two celadon chopstick holders, one broken and repaired with gold, wrapped in openwork paper in triangular gift box with greenish Japanese paper cover and two wax seals in pyramid-shaped black cardboard outer packaging, outside with computer-generated colored paper with gold overlays and gold leaves, inside with green Japanese paper as well as a color photograph and an X-ray of the two porcelain bowls. Signed, titled and dated on the enclosed ceritifact. 1997. dimensions of the chopstick holders: 9 x 4 x 2 cm each. Gift box (pyramid): 20 x 24 x 24 cm. Photograph/X-ray: each 25 x 20 cm (framed: 37 x 29.5 cm). Assemblage by the American artist Barbara Bloom (born 1951), one of the most important representatives of postmodernism, whose works have been exhibited at MoMA in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the MAK in Vienna, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Hamburger Bahnhof, among others. - The heart of the multi-part object is a chopstick holder repaired in the manner of the traditional Japanese art of "Kintsugi", which is juxtaposed with an unbroken but otherwise identical "chopstick holder". The differences between the two ceramic bowls, which are barely perceptible in the photograph, are all the more striking in the identically framed X-ray photograph. - In addition to the signed original certificate, an invoice from the Raffaela Cortese Gallery in Milan and a slide with a photograph of the ensemble by A. Maniscaldo are included. - The gift packaging (cardboard box and pyramid) somewhat dusty, stained and creased, the paper banderole attached to the triangular cardboard box with a seal somewhat creased, the two celadon porcelain bowls very good.