Category: chair art

The Artist Chair by Claudie Bastide

The Artist Chair by Claudie Bastide

A long time ago that I featured a chair by Claudie. Here is another one. It seems that nowadays she is more into painting.

” The chairs ! but why the chairs?

When we can, with three strokes of a pencil, two or three colors, enchant the eye, draw us into dreams, and panic entire souls? Fire ! thus ended the first, her feet burned before my eyes, her feet, what am I saying? his hands, his head, his entire body, ignoble sacrifice of my ideas, pyre witness to the surrounding intolerance! I knew at that moment that I would make it personal. What’s the point of fighting against an inclination, against a foundation…? SITTING…that’s a word that speaks to me! Don’t we sit down to rest, to think, to write…? – OH YES !

“SIT” the schoolmaster tells us…

AH! IF you knew everything that goes through my head!!!

I see it far from any contingency:

Feminine or masculine or sometimes both, hilarious or sad, crazy or realistic,

raw or sophisticated, always full of meaning, never trivial.

Whether or not you can put your bottom on it is the least of my worries..

She frees herself from the chair

because she has so much to tell you. »

Claudie Bastide

Via Sculpture Zinzins

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Bucket with Eggs on Chair by Hans-Peter Feldman

Bucket with Eggs on Chair by Hans-Peter Feldman

Found it recently at Museum Voorlinden

Hans-Peter Feldmann (17 January 1941 – 24 May 2023) was a German visual artist. Feldmann’s approach to art-making was one of collecting, ordering, and re-presenting.

Biography
Feldmann was born on 17 January 1941. In the 1960s, Feldmann studied painting at the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz in Austria. He began working in 1968, producing the first of the small handmade books that would become a signature part of his work. These modest books, simply entitled Bild (Picture) or Bilder (Pictures), would include one or more reproductions from a certain type—knees of women, shoes, chairs, film stars, etc.–their subjects isolated in their ubiquity and presented without captions. In 1979 Feldmann decided to pull out of the art world and just make books and pictures for himself. In 1989 the curator Kasper König persuaded Feldmann to exhibit in a gallery again.

Feldmann died on 24 May 2023, at the age of 82.[3]

Via Wikipedia.

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Un-Interrupted Voice by Zhen Chen

Un-Interrupted Voice by Zhen Chen

Above photo I took in the Voorlinden Museum, but there are probably more alike installations by Zhen Chen like this one from Histoire Immigration:

Born in 1955 into a family of doctors, Chen Zhen went into exile in France in 1986. A true citizen of the world, he worked in New York as well as in Shanghai and Paris, his adopted city, before dying prematurely in 2000. In Paris, he “meets” other cultural contexts and confronts them. From then on, he continued to combine his own experiences in a work combining traditional and contemporary elements borrowed from Chinese and Western cultures. Strongly metaphorical, his work reflects “his vision of the world forged over almost thirty years by very nomadic personal experiences and extremely varied environments: ten years of cultural revolution, ten years of Chinese reform, ten years in the West” (Chen Zhen , Sonorous Silence, exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Oct. 1, 2003-Jan. 18, 2004, Paris). So many experiments which will lead him to question the notion of cultural identity and his own transcended identity.

Un-interrupted Voice, created in 1998, transforms chairs into drums. Through this metamorphosis of ordinary objects into a new type of musical instrument, the artist composes a hybrid work, made not of collages, but of a fusion of experiences and lifestyles.
For Chen Zhen, art has the same function as medicine, it is about “treating oneself by beating the drums…, massaging oneself, cleansing oneself, eliminating stress, and regaining psychological balance and emotional “. But, beyond its therapeutic dimension, Un-interrupted Voice finds its full meaning in its interaction with others, with the public invited to come and beat the heads of the drums. The piece expresses a desire for dialogue; it embodies and translates the meeting of musical, plastic, historical, political cultures…

Work presented in the exhibition J’ai deux amours (November 16, 2011 – June 24, 2011)

via Histoire Immigration

Another one was on auction at Christie’s and fetched USD 50,400 in 2022.

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Chaise et Caisson by Marcel Broodthaers

Chaise et Caisson by Marcel Broodthaers

Seen in Antwerp in 1919 in Muhka: Overview exhibition of Marcel Broodthaers “Soleil Politique”, October 4, 2019 – January 2020.
Chaise et Caisson is owned by Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar.
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Tape Chair by Hester Oerlemans

Tape Chair by Hester Oerlemans

The mixing of different worlds, playful interventions and commentaries on everyday reality are the main themes
in the work of artist Hester Oerlemans. Leaving no medium unexploited, she consistently shows a perception of
the world around her which is both poetic and critical. In drawings, videos and sculptures, she makes an effort to
unravel the object until its essence shows. No matter whether she busies herself with the art world, urban space
or our personal surroundings, she hits the nail on its head.

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Chairs!
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