Amazingly this 50 years old and well used sofa by John Vesey fetched $ 55,000 ( over one thousand dollars per year) at Wright
Popular Posts of March 2011
Over 56k visitors and over 126k page views, a new record. Over 100 new posts.
We – you readers, thank you – and contributors, thank you Julia and Polley – have done our best. Hope we continue in April to do so or better. Happy April Fool’s day! Anybody a good prank for today?
For a change I Use Feedburner stats, because it catches new posts better and give 5 popular March 2011 posts in images:
1) The Laundry Chair by Jess Corteen
2) The Birth of the .03 Chair by Maarten van Severen
3) The Skull Chair by Pool at Milan 2011
4) Hinges for a Hans Wegner Valet Chair, Anybody?
5) The Coffeecup Chair by He Was Born
Janez Suhadolc and Parzival by Robert Wilson
Going back again to an exhibition of Janez Suhadolc in 2006. The reason is my recent interest in Pinterest. There two photos of Robert Wilson’s Parzival Chair, Chair with a Shadow came up and I had immediately associations with that exhibition by Suhadolc.
The purpose of the setting is not to simply place Suhadolc’s chairs into a room and leave the Permanent collection authors’ paintings on the walls. The exhibition was set up by Suhadolc himself to reflect a special relationship between his own works and the works of other authors. He uses the so-called quotations by other authors. He places his works and drawings within a certain distance to the works of other authors in such a way that the visitor is forced to look at them differently than he is used to. (Namely, many a time the visitor embraces the whole image only superficially, with almost no interest in the details, the painting becomes more of an “equipment” which truncates whole experience.) This time it is different. The viewer is forced to look for details and structures, both of the paintings as well as Suhadolc’s exhibits. For us at the gallery, this kind of setting is thus even more unusual and very special since we are more or less used to setting up exhibits “as they are”. Namely, we prefer for each author and his work to be on a separate wall, and to have as little dialogue with other works as possible, except when the concept of an exhibition involves a connection of different authors.
So Suhadolc placed his chairs in a certain position vis a vis certain chair paintings. The way he did that according to the two photos here above give similar thoughts as the The Wilson Parzival Chair with a shadow. Wouldn’t you agree?
The Latter photo is from an auction (The Robert Wilson Loft Sale) at Philips de Pury in 2007 where it fetched $26,400
For me the Parzival is a chair installation in itself. But it took a detour to Slovenia to appreciate it.
BTW now Janez seems to have a blog with….one post
Wave Sofa by Giovanni Offredi
Just sold for $ 1,000 at Wright this Wave Sofa by Giovanni Offredi.
Thin Windsor Chair by Richard Dobra
Thin Windsor Chair by Richard Dobra
Richard Dobra is a New Jersey based artist whose work often challenges conventional ideas of art and reflects the concepts of the Dada movement. Drawn to the symbolism and meaning imbedded in common chair forms, Dobra created a series of works that play off notions of design, function and their relevance to human form. The series was first presented at the Morris Museum in 2001.
Estimate: $ 1,500 – $ 2,000
Result: $ 1,000
Via Wright