Pablo Bronstein
Staff and Stethoscope, 2023
£250*
EDITION SIZE: 50 with 5 A/P (signed, dated and numbered by the artist, recto)
FINISHING: Giclée print, archival ink on Hahnemühle German etching paper, 310gsm
DIMENSIONS: 36.4 x 50 cm
*(unframed) plus post and packaging
Barts Health NHS staff recieve a 10% discount on all editions
Vital Arts is thrilled to announce our new limited edition print by Pablo Bronstein, commissioned in honour of Barts 900—the year long celebration of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital 900th anniversary.
Staff and Stethoscope explores the history of medicine, and of Barts itself. The artist draws influence from the magnificent Hogarth Staircase in the hospital’s North Wing, completed in 1737. The work also references a major architectural feature at Barts, the 1701 gatehouse, which was commissioned to commemorate the hospital being spared from dissolution by King Henry VIII. Combining the Rod of Asclepius–the symbol of healing and medicinal arts dating back to ancient Greece–with the contemporary stethoscope, this edition is a salute to the hospital’s outstanding medical staff, both past and present.
Pablo Bronstein’s work centres around period design and architecture, often incorporating elements of satire in a commentary on taste. His drawings of buildings range from historically accurate and analytical to overly ornamental and decorative, and this interest in architecture’s character and vitality frequently extends into live work, including performance and film. Bronstein’s work also includes large-scale sculptures and wallpaper installations that play with a sense of space, scale, and domesticity. He has exhibited at major venues, with recent solo exhibitions at Sir John Soanes Museum, London; Tate Britain, London; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; and OGR Torino, Turin. His work is held in several museum collections including Tate, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; British Museum, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and many others.
Proceeds from the sale of this print will support the Brent Centre for Young People and the Vital Arts programme.
In this series
As part of his commission for Vital Arts, Pablo Bronstein offered to create a set of ten unique colourways of Staff and Stethoscope, in addition to the standard edition of 30
