Tag: Richard Artschwager

• Sculpture and Designed Things Part III: ‘Art is Useless’

  9 September 2013

  object studies

  Donald Judd, Furniture, Minimalism, Modern furniture, Richard Artschwager, scott burton, Specific Objects

  Richard Artschwager is not someone commonly taught in survey art history courses or an artist with widespread name recognition – something the recent retrospective exhibition attempted to rectify. Besides his use of non-traditional materials like Formica, part of the reason for this oversight is due to Artschwager’s ability to fit or not fit into a range…

• Sculpture and Designed Things Part II: Artschwager and Formica

  29 August 2013

  object studies, thinking about the sculptural

  design, Formica, Laminate, materials, Richard Artschwager, Sculpture

  “This housewife is a ‘FORMICA’ kitchen enthusiast – but aren’t we all? Won’t you feel life is good when you own a kitchen where all the surfaces are jewel-bright-clean-at-a-wipe ‘FORMICA’ Laminated Plastic?” – Formica Advertisement, 1953, published in Ideal Home  Jean Baudrillard wrote that modern materials like concrete or nylon are no less true, authentic, or real…

• Sculpture and Designed Things Part I: Andre, Artschwager, and Everything but the Kitchen Sink

  14 August 2013

  object studies, thinking about the sculptural

  Art Institute of Chicago, blps, Carl Andre, minimalist sculpture, Richard Artschwager, sculpture and design

  I think I may be having a bit of a Richard Artschwager revelation. For all of my interest in sculpture, especially postwar sculpture, I have to admit that I have never given his work a lot of attention. The timing of this personal Artschwager-awakening, while caused by an seemingly odd confluence of encounters, is not…