Chairs in art... or just take a minute and sit...
11:22 a.m.One of the many wonderful aspects of Art is that posibility of looking at the most common aspects of daily life from a totally new perspective... Simple things are transformed into artistic happenings...
One and three chairs, by Joseph Kosuth (1965)
Materials and measurements: wood folding chair (82 x 37.8 x 53 cm), mounted photograph of a chair (91.5 x 61.1cm) and mounted photographic enlargement of the dictionary definition of "chair" (61 x 61.1 cm)
A chair has, on one side, a photo of itself and, on the other, the definition of the word "chair." Both the photo as the words describe the nature of the chair. Why then is the actual chair needed? When visitors ask that same question, the answer takes them to the processes involved in conceptual art. According to artist Joseph Kosuth (USA, 1945) this type of art is based in the inquiry of the nature of art itself. This means that the actual chair, the photo or the words are all different proofs of the concept of chair. The same, but seen in different ways: a way of explaining, by the trifle subject of a chair, the many aspects of the concept "art."
One and three chairs is the first conceptual instalation. Its name may seem ambiguous, however it is quite clear that there's a chair (object), but also three chairs (considering the words and the photo: both concept of a chair).
TH 15 05 (Series Thoneteando), by Pablo Reinoso (2005)
Materials: wood / Measures: 57 x 180 x 74 cm - MALBA
Artist Pablo Reinoso (Buenos Aires, 1955. Lives and works in Paris) stretches the chair in an unusual way, challenging our conception of wood as a material. A chair like that, compared with our mental comprehension of such object in terms of shape and functionality, it's not useful for seating: it has become something else.
Juego interrumpido (II versión), by Guillermo Roux (1976)
Technique: watercolor on paper / Measures: 98. 4 x 109 cm
- MNBA
- MNBA
Another impossible chair. In this example, the artist chose to attach other figures, resulting in something moving and disturbing. It looks like the image of an uncertain memory we could have from our childhood, where objects shift and blend in unusual ways. However, it is certain that this work by Guillermo Roux (Buenos Aires, 1929) has something surreal and magic in it, showing a rare skill in the use of watercolors.
To read more... AAVV, Arte Argentino para el tercer milenio, Buenos Aires (2000), MoMA Highlights 350 works of the Museum of Modern Art New York, 2009.
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