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Portrait of the Museum as a Chair |
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 October 25 – December 11, 2001Museum as Subjects, The National Museum of Art, OsakaPortrait of the Museum as a Chair, 2001, temporary installation: 52 chairs, information sheets (Japanese / English), podium; total dimensions: 130 x 354 x 236 inches |
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Naturalezas Muertas |
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February 13 – March 25, 1998 Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid
– Spanish Family of Ikea / US Family of Ikea, 1998, laserchrome; each 42 x 38 inches; collection of the artist – The Party Girls, 1998, iris print, edition of 3; 40 x 56 inches – The Entertainer, 1998, iris print, edition of 3; 40 x 56 inches – The Collector, 1998, iris print, edition of 3; 40 x 56 inches – What You Can’t See Is How Well It Goes with Your Student Loans, 1998, props on a base, Plexiglas, Ikea table “Lack;” 59 x 23 x 23 inches – You’ll Probably Never Need It, 1998, props on a base, Plexiglas, Ikea table “Lack;” 68 x 23 x 23 inches; Themistocles and Dare Michos, San Francisco – Wenn Ansprüche wachsen, 1998, props on a base, Plexiglas, Ikea table “Lack;” 59 x 23 x 23 inches
Courtesy of Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid |
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News and Gifts |
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 November 1995 American Fine Arts, Co., New YorkPreliminary Room– News and Gifts, 1995, silkscreen on laminated chipboard, 52 x 36 inches Room 1Installation: six exhibition displays, chipboard, laminated, silkscreen, each 66 x 36 x 18 inches – Newsstand Local, 1995; Private collection, Berlin – Newsstand National # 1, 1995 – Newsstand National # 2, 1995; destroyed – Newsstand International # 1, 1995; Barbara and Howard Morse, New York – Newsstand International # 2, 1995; Themistocles and Dare Michos, San Francisco – Newsstand International # 3, 1995; collection of F. C. Gundlach, Hamburg Room 2Installation: two pyramids for products, chipboard, laminated; each 72 x 72 x 57 inches – Pyramid 1, 1995 – Pyramid 2, 1995 |
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Interpellations |
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 April 16 – May 7, 1994American Fine Arts, Co., New YorkExhibition SpaceSix display cases, chipboard, painted; Plexiglas, bookracks, each 46 x 48 x 18 inches; total dimensions: 46 x 144 x 36 inches – Vitrine 1, 1994, four English-language travel guides, manipulated; Private collection, New York – Vitrines 2, 3, 1994, four English-language travel guides each, manipulated – Vitrines 4, 5, 6, 1994, four German-language travel guides each, manipulated Office of the Gallery Owner– Tablevitrine, 1994, two English-language travel guides, manipulated; chipboard, painted; Plexiglas, bookracks; 18 x 26 x 6 inches; Themistocles and Dare Michos, San Francisco |
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The Family of Austrians |
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 October 19 – November 30, 1993Galerie Metropol, ViennaDisplay Window– The Family of Austrians, 1993, reworked exhibition catalogue The Family of Man (1955), linen slipcase, embossed; Sammlung Karola Grässlin Room 1– The Family of Austrians 1:10, A, 1993, model on base, MDF, painted; Plexiglas, seven black and white photographs, adhesive letters, wire; total dimensions: 51 x 27 x 15 inches; Ernst Ploil, Vienna – The Family of Austrians 1:10, B, 1993, model on base, MDF, painted; Plexiglas seven black and white photographs, adhesive letters, wire; total dimensions: 51 x 27 x 15 inches; Georg Kargl, Vienna Room 2– Untitled, 1993, black and white photograph, passe-partout, framed; edition of three; 20 x 22 inches – Untitled, 1993, table made of pear wood, linoleum, steel, mail order catalogue (traditional fashion, 1993 season); 71 x 39 x 37 inches – Three display cases with traditional Bregenzerwälder women’s costumes; collection of the Institute for Costume Studies, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna – Monitor with two educational films about traditional women’s costumes from Bregenz by Annemarie Bönsch; Österreichisches Bundesinstitut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film, Vienna Room 3– The Family of Austrians, 1993, installation: seven black and white photographs, enlarged; 275 x 153 inches; Ernst Ploil, Vienna |
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A Sense of Friendliness, Mellowness, and Permanence |
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 November 22 – December 23, 1992American Fine Arts, Co., New YorkExhibition Room– Untitled, 1992, felt curtain, faux leather, brass; two components; 90 x 65 / 90 x 85 inches, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – Maître d’Stand, 1992, oak, American Fine Arts menus (number variable), guest list, yellow pages and two telephone books from New York, mobile telephone); 55.5 x 19.25 x 18.5 inches; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – Disguise, 1992, wooden planks made of oak, wall lamps made of brass and glass; height: 55 inches, width: variable; partially owned by: Themistocles and Dare Michos, San Francisco; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; collection of Peter Weibel; Sammlung Wiese, München Office of the Gallery Owner– Ma Bibliothèque, 1992, wall paper, oak, artists books, cognac carafe, gilded; 95 x 79 x 13 inches; Collection Barbara and Howard Morse, New York |
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Fixed Values |
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 December 14, 1991 – January 19, 1992Palais des Beaux-Arts, BrusselsRotunda– The King’s Welcoming Speech, 1988, monitor with video on base, 3 min.; Sammlung Karola Grässlin Room 1– Vitrine, 1991, wooden display case, objects from performance labeled with their auction number (photo originals from Germany, German peaked cap, entry tickets, men’s shoes, roll of wall paper on top of a page with a “Rémy Martin” ad, clover, Le poème électronique by Le Corbusier, drawing Progressive Stimulierungskurve, tape recorder, color photograph with cover, box with glued-on piece of newspaper); Collection Bruno van Lierde, Brussels Room 2– Sich vordrängender Hintergrund, 1991, paper, mechanism for hanging, rolled-up length variable; 143 x 1181 inches; courtesy of Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne / Berlin – Two Important Dates in My Life, 1991, acrylic on canvas, two parts 10 x 13 inches / 61 x 76 inches; Daled Collection, Brussels Room 3– Installation: fabric wall covering, 16 halogen spotlights, felt and signs with auction numbers – Köln–Düsseldorf, 1990, 16 Plexiglas cubes, disassembled, varying dimensions; Sammlung Karola Grässlin |
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Auftakt |
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 April 26 – May 26, 1990The Köln Show, Gallery Building at Venloer Strasse 21, CologneStairway– Auftakt, 1990 (with Fareed Armaly), four loudspeakers, tapes (Muzak Brussels) Listen audio.... |
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Eh! bien prenons la plume |
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September 3 – September 24, 1988 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Rooms I, II, III, VI, VII Wallpaper with silver motifs of St. Luke on a blue background
Room III – The King’s Welcoming Speech, 1988, monitor and video on base, 3 min.; Sammlung Karola Grässlin – Reconstruction of the original architecture in MDF, curtain fabric
Room VI – Architectural intervention in wood, painted – Group picture (gift of 15 Arti et Amicitiae members to King Wilhelm III, 1874) – Bench by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, 1893
Stairway / Club Rooms – Site-specific works by new Arti et Amicitiae members: Fortuyn/O’Brien, Aldert Mantja, Rob Scholte, Ton van Summeren, Martin van Vreden, Peer Veneman
– Eh! bien prenons la plume, 1988, artist book (96 pages); 6.5 x 9.5 inches, edition of 1000 |
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