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Seats for black holes
Using chairs as letters to convey a message was a great find for me. Especially if you can then put the title of the work in a different light. For example, ‘Z onder Titel (‘Z’ under title in English) is certainly a playful commentary on the many works of the same name in countless museums (‘untitled’ in English). And Seats for Black Holes is such an offering for phenomena in the universe. The chairs annex letters are the celestial bodies that fill the firmament and offer a seat to a black hole (The words/chairs in the image are in dutch: Zetels voor zwarte gaten).
Z onder titel
What you see is what you get or Z (onder=) under (titel=) title. From about 1996 upto 2000 I made a series of works where I used the chair as a letter. Such as Alphabet, Furniture Show and most impressive Seats for black holes.
Escher in Oirschot
Made in the first of my two graduation years at the Academy for Visual Education in Tilburg. In the kitchen of (my wife) Sofia’s student house there was such an Oirschot chair. Playing with that chair’s shape, this variant emerged, a trifle with major consequences. I didn’t know at the time that it was called that, but one of the teachers at the academy dropped that name. The combination between in this case a drawing and a title that offers a clue arose then. My sense of language and associative ability join the maker and loose is the bear.
Recently I made Escher in Oirschot II. Very different and yet also very related.