Walker Art Center
2009 Look_002
Walker Art Center Library Display Case, Winter 2009/2010.
Look!
Of the five pairs of glasses on display two are works made by artists. In front of Joe Tilson's LOOK! is a pair of specs by Rosemarie Trockel made in a limited edition of 120 for TEXTE ZUR KUNST, a contemporary art journel published in Berlin. The artist's edition entitled 4EYES (1991) features one farsighted lens and one nearsighted lens, thus rendering any accurate enhancement of vision impossible. It is a Dada-esque approach to object making - one that demonstrates the wit and ironic view of the artist. The second artwork is a multiple by Jonathan Lethem for THE THING, a subscription service that delivers art objects, usually a household object that incorporates text. Think magazine as object. Lethem is a writer who designed a pair of black framed glasses with text on the temples that reads "Will you know a chaldron when you see one? With these glasses you will know a true one." Lethem's latest novel (CHRONIC CITY) is peppered with impossible objects called "chaldrons". The glasses come with 12 statements about chaldrons which are posted in the display. In contrast to Trockel's specs, Lethem's are fully functional!
Designed by Rosemary Furtak.
2009 Look_002
Walker Art Center Library Display Case, Winter 2009/2010.
Look!
Of the five pairs of glasses on display two are works made by artists. In front of Joe Tilson's LOOK! is a pair of specs by Rosemarie Trockel made in a limited edition of 120 for TEXTE ZUR KUNST, a contemporary art journel published in Berlin. The artist's edition entitled 4EYES (1991) features one farsighted lens and one nearsighted lens, thus rendering any accurate enhancement of vision impossible. It is a Dada-esque approach to object making - one that demonstrates the wit and ironic view of the artist. The second artwork is a multiple by Jonathan Lethem for THE THING, a subscription service that delivers art objects, usually a household object that incorporates text. Think magazine as object. Lethem is a writer who designed a pair of black framed glasses with text on the temples that reads "Will you know a chaldron when you see one? With these glasses you will know a true one." Lethem's latest novel (CHRONIC CITY) is peppered with impossible objects called "chaldrons". The glasses come with 12 statements about chaldrons which are posted in the display. In contrast to Trockel's specs, Lethem's are fully functional!
Designed by Rosemary Furtak.