Richard Artschwager | "Hair Box," 1990 | (for Parkett 23)
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Parkett Vol. 23
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“An Artschwager chair is a chair distilled to its platonic essence, all trace of ornamentation edited and pruned away, abridged to the intellectual state of chairhood, part of a kit through which we teach the meanings of ‘chair’ and ‘table.’”
Arthur C. Danto, Parkett No. 23, 1990
"Hair Box," 1990 (for Parkett 23)
Paint on rubberized hair, wood backing,
10 x 15 x 5” (25,4 x 38 x 13 cm),
Ed. 100/XX, signed and numbered on label, verso.
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Artist Document
In a Richard Artschwager exhibition titled “Hair” at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, curator Anthony Huberman writes:
”This exhibition focuses on a material he has used throughout his career to explore the tactility of the visual experience: rubberized horsehair. These unusual works, produced over a thirty-year period, depart from the crisp lines and sharp forms of his better-known Formica furniture works, blurring the clarity of sculptural form and throwing the object out of focus. They allow for what the artist has called a “perfect imprecision.” A material commonly found in upholstery, rubberized horsehair is typically hidden from view underneath the soft edges of a sofa. Here, Artschwager reverses the relationship between an object and its raw materials, asking the inner-body of an object to become its own surface. His hairy silhouettes of life-size human figures seem to dance, float, climb, and rejoice; yet they remain faceless and out of reach. With forms that manage to be both recognizable and nameless at the same time, Artschwager complicates our sense of perception, rendering the accessible inaccessible.”
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