This blog is for people who like chairs and like art.
I like art and I did a three-year course in upholstery because I like chairs. I've noticed that chairs have inspired artists through the ages. If chairs can become art, can chair-makers become artists?
This blog documents my journey through the spaghetti junction that is the interface between art and chairs. Where will it take me? To a gallery, the workshop, my computer, the madhouse? I welcome your company. And comments.
Well, I'm intrigued. Keep 'em coming.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure many people would argue the chair isn't art until Floppy or Josie chew it!
ReplyDeleteIntriguing certainly. But are you sure you really want to leave the land that is honest craft for the incomprehensible stratosphere that is contemporary art?
ReplyDeleteHave you seen - Untitled (Glass Chair) by Charles Ray. I saw it in Punta Della Dogana, Venice last May.
ReplyDeleteHello Anonymous. Thanks for your comment. I agree that craft appears to have an intrinsic honesty compared to contemporary art, but modern art is so full of possibility. And it's what we don't know about it rather than what we do know that's so exciting. Don't you think?
ReplyDeleteThanks Sirpa. Wow! I'm looking at the Charles Ray piece now. It's fantastic! I'm going to discuss it and include a picture in my next post - possibly under an ongoing strand entitled Why Didn't I Think Of That?. I'd love to hear what other people think about it.
ReplyDeleteHow about Doris Salcedo. Have you seen her work? She has done some incredible pieces with chairs.
ReplyDeleteHey mrs, well I would say yes you are an artist!!
ReplyDeleteBut chairs are interesting, guess they can be about context.. you could see a chair and do not think anything of it then when you get told, where it comes from, or who owned it, or how many times they nailed their own hands learning to upholster it...why they wanted to upholster...then you see it differently. I am interested in objects and stories... they can be a starting point for a story...or sugest a story, like in denis severs house..they have a little boys cane leaning up against an old chair and it is meant to remind you of tiny tim in scrooge... I guess thay can suggest something that may have happened or is about to...
Or a history that is now gone. The "a throne is just a stool covered in velvet" quote comes to mind...
I saw a woman talk called -Kate Daudy who is into objects and memory....
kate x