Rare Wes Lang Chateau Marmont 2011 Exhibition Sketch Print

Good condition. Purchase many years ago and has been carefully stored ever since. Extremely rare and hard to find. This is a promotional print from Wes Lang's Chateau Marmont exhibit from 2011. Measures about 16" tall by 12" wide. Not signed or dated, bottom edge seems to be cut slightly off, and there is a slight bend in the top corner as shown. Details: In a collaboration between Wes Lang and OHWOW gallery, Lang spent a month at the notorious Hollywood Hotel Chateau Marmont in 2011. Brooklyn-based artist Wes Lang holed up in Room 34 of Los Angeles’s storied Chateau Marmont for Sittin' On a Rainbow, a collection of daintily rendered drawings referencing everything from Native American iconography to late artist Dash Snow to rock legend Jim Morrison. “The base of it all is American history,” Lang says of the spectral-tinged suite, which is presented on monogram-embossed hotel stationery. A collaboration with OHWOW gallery, Lang’s project was inspired by Martin Kippenberger’s early 90s Hotel Drawings, while the setting for his month-long residency was informed by the Chateau’s own rumored resident ghost. “I remember as a kid when John Belushi died there,” the artist says. “I was only nine, but somehow it made a big impression on me.” Named for a lyric in Sinatra’s “I’ve Got the World On a String,” the exhibition was on view for a one-night-only show at the Chateau Marmont on June 23, in the room once occupied by Howard Hughes.