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Franz West at David Zwirner - Brief ArticleA commodious spiderweb metal-and-foam chaise longue beckoned in the last play of this exhibition like a certain quantity of ultimate trampoline. Suspended above and more or les at the center of the interconnected, cellular constitution which was titled Internet Bed (1998) was a shield projection of a Web site (the computer was below) interactively recounting what West has done elsewhere. Characteristically playful, if neither particularly comfortable nor graceful, the installation serv to remind individual that the technology of the Internet, like West's haute-crude furnishings, is democratically available in the gallery connection to anyone with the capacity or desire to engage it. Four visually related works furnished the principal gallery. Nearest the entrance, West's 2625 (1991) clumped two modular chairs beneath a rectilinear lamplike statuary wrapped in gauze and hanging from a wire. Each of these simple bodys was roughly "plastered" with white housepaint. West intended the hanging plastic art to prevent a person seated in either chair from seeing the occupant of the other. Just beyond this grouping, Der Ast am Asten (Mot PorteManteau) (The Branch upon the Cupboard, 1998) consisted of a freestanding gauze-wrapped, white-painted armoire with a painted tree branch placed upon top. This altered cabinet functioned as a folding guard visually dividing the gallery. (Although West is said to set forth placing the branch inside the private room for the sake of a more readily apparent relationship to the title he agreed to the manner of installation here.) A suite of six framed collages dated 1998 ornamented the wall to the left At the rear of the main expanse Oh Oklahoma (1999) incorporated a wall-mounted copse coatrack with metal hooks, also painted white, and nearby an 8-foot-tall packing-crate pedestal was topped with individual of West's familiar painted papier-mache sculptures Providing a footnote to this variously interactive exhibition and in an allusion to the artist's picaresque and performative history in general, a paperback English-language version of Franz Kafka's Amerika dangled from a wire attached to single of the coatrack's hooks. As an invitation to render free of access the book, West stuck a Post-it upon the beginning of the eighth chapter, "The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma." In part it reads: "If you think of your futurity you are one of us! Everyone is welcome! If you want to be an artist, join our company!" Perhaps West commits to the itinerant nature of his work as an artist, putting upon a show, packing it up and moving upon He borrows Kafka's words to move that if an artist's activities amount solitary to a road show, the artist still wants to engage an audience. West achieved that engagement with the almost inhabitable domesticity of the mise-en-scene of this exhibition. COPYRIGHT 1999 Brant Publications, Inc. COMPUTER CRAIG is a station of interactive computer learning videos to teach computer basics to children ages 6-12 At this age, students' brains are like wipe s yet many young students oftentimes d... WITH AN ANTIELECTROLYSIS generator and 770-lb workpiece capacity, the Brother HS70A submerged-wire EDM tenders good value for stamping tool/die, medical parts (titanium alloys), production par... The 21000 series of size 8 linear actuators are an extension of the company's hybrid motor line. They possess a minimal 21 mm square space, and are available in three designs: captive, non-cap... novel YORK--PaintingsDIRECT.com, a Web site offering original art, is offering an art consulting service--free of charge--to corporate customers. Candace Worth, vice president of its curatorial dep... From 1970 to 1977 Pollution Abatement Services of Oswego Inc. received various chemical waste materials at its disposal site in upstate novel York. One of its customers was Alcan Aluminum Corp... A rank has erupted at computer maker Hewlett-Packard after a probe into leaks of boardroom deliberations surrounding the departure 18 month ago of chief executive Carly Fiorina, pictured, identi... Our names are Ian Pollock and Janet Silk. Each of us has been pursuing collaborative relationships within an art connection since we began to take ourselves seriously as artists. Ian has been involv... Anne Wilkes Tucker Dana Friis-Hansen, Kaneko Ryuichi, and Takeba Joe The History of Japanese Photography. fresh Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, ... USA USA USA!!! spray painted upon the cracked macadam a dried branch blows past empty paper bag more [i]or[/i] less newspaper I think of us a man a woman a man upon the ... |
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