Post number 4: David Byrne

Talking Heads' David Byrne is a surprisingly keen enthusiast of chairs in art and writes very interestingly about it her: http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/chairs/index.php

Post Number 3: Doris Salcedo

Art can certainly be chairs, as many artists have shown.

Top of the list has to be Colombian artist Doris Salcedo who uses chairs a lot in her work. Her amazing installation (left) created in 2003 for the 8th Istanbul Biennale, imbues the humble wooden household chair with incredible symbolism. Salcedo wedged thousands of chairs into the space between two buildings. Taken separately each chair suggests an absent owner - similarly callously discarded? - taken overall, the installation evokes a sense of monumental loss.

Imagine the technical ingenuity involved in creating this effect of bringing the chairs exactly flush with the neighbouring walls!

You can see Doris Salcedo talking about this installation on:

www.pbs.org/art 21/artists/doris salcedo/

My homage to Doris Salcedo.

Post Number 2

Art

Art: Sirpa Pajunen-Moghissi

Art? Not even if the dogs hadn't  chewed one corner and I'd covered it in a Picasso canvas.