Walker Art Center
2011 Harriet Bart detail
Walker Art Center owns THE BOX IN A VALISE, a witty creation by Marcel Duchamp, who devised the idea of fabricating his works (familiar to art lovers) in signed and numbered miniature versions – a small urinal, a tiny typewriter cover, Paris air. They were the first multiples – small-scale sculptures that seemed more affordable and more accessible than the unique works. Multiplication was the message.
Every December for the past twenty years, the artist Harriet Bart, creator of the WINTER PROJECTS, has been making and sending multiples. These multiples echo her larger finished works and serve as a holiday greeting for sixty or more friends and colleagues. Moreover, they are produced for just $5.00 as giveaways (in the spirit of Fluxus) and are packaged to go through the US Mail. The recipients have collected some twenty years’ worth of multiples that are often housed together on a special shelf, much like the one seen in the Walker Library vitrine.
Library Display Case curated by Rosemary Furtak featuring works of Harriet Bart, photographed January 5, 2011.
2011 Harriet Bart detail
Walker Art Center owns THE BOX IN A VALISE, a witty creation by Marcel Duchamp, who devised the idea of fabricating his works (familiar to art lovers) in signed and numbered miniature versions – a small urinal, a tiny typewriter cover, Paris air. They were the first multiples – small-scale sculptures that seemed more affordable and more accessible than the unique works. Multiplication was the message.
Every December for the past twenty years, the artist Harriet Bart, creator of the WINTER PROJECTS, has been making and sending multiples. These multiples echo her larger finished works and serve as a holiday greeting for sixty or more friends and colleagues. Moreover, they are produced for just $5.00 as giveaways (in the spirit of Fluxus) and are packaged to go through the US Mail. The recipients have collected some twenty years’ worth of multiples that are often housed together on a special shelf, much like the one seen in the Walker Library vitrine.
Library Display Case curated by Rosemary Furtak featuring works of Harriet Bart, photographed January 5, 2011.