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shut it you tart!!
It is a work of art
Looks like a whole bunch of eyes looking out…. “Sometimes They Come Back”
That is beautiful! Anybody knows where that is from?
Extreme Furniture stacking! Thats the problem with many hobbies, they simply take up too much room.
@Behe
http://www.whitecube.com/artists/salcedo/
In 2003, in Istanbul, she made an installation on an unremarkable street comprising 1,600 wooden chairs stacked precariously in the space between two buildings.
WHAT?!?!?!?!
“And the prophesy stated that the kingdom would end on the seat of a chair…” So the king proclaimed all chairs illegal, and they were to be destroyed. But in a far corner of the kingdom, the greatest of all chair-makers could not bear to see his life’s work destroyed. Not being a bright man, he simply stacked them all between his workshop and the inn, and hoped no one would notice when they came to burn them.
I really chair-ish this picture!! I think this picture was taken for chair-ity..
Im done
Every day Mrs. Blaegovich toddled down to one of the many second-hand stores in Legotstovia and bought, with a tiny slice of her slowly-dwindling pension, a wooden dining-room chair. People on the sidewalk would stare as the little widow dragged the chair home, scraping and screeching all the way, but nobody ever asked what she was about. Upon reaching her third-floor walk-up over the mini-mart, she dragged the chair up the stairs, bump-bump-bump all the way to the top. All of her neighbors heard this, but nobody ever questioned it. Leaving the chair sitting forlornly before the door to the roof, she retrieved a tiny brass key from a hook in the cabinet next to the powdered milk. She unlocked the roof-access door and pulled the chair out onto the tarpaper. With the firm grip of the aged, she swung the chair in a discus-thrower’s spin and hurled it into the open space next to her building. Hearing the clatter-ca-chok of her handiwork, she said something that translates as “This is the truth”.
and so they gathered all the chairs in the land to burn so that their beautiful but retarded princess couldnt fall and hurt herself from one…
“Why don’t you have a seat over there.”
- Chris Hansen
this is indeed an artwork. This was probably 2 or 4 years ago, as a part of the Istanbul Biennial.
yes it is from istanbul and yes, everyone in istanbul received a free chair after the biennial. ha!
E-C-W! E-C-W! E-C-W! E-C-W! E-C-W! E-C-W!
Chair man of the bored. Cool pic, though.
those are alot of chairs. must have cost a fortune to make!
This was an art exhibit (link: http://www.whitecube.com/artists/salcedo/) Done in Istanbul, apparently. Strange, because you’d think it was done in Chairmany.
aww i enjoyed chaetophile’s story
I’m sitting here picking out the ones I want for the kitchen table.
Yes, it may indeed be art. But isn’t the point of much modern art to make you go, WTF?
http://www.chairblog.eu/2007/10/08/istanbul-2003-biennial-a-chair-installation/
“May I buy that chair over there please? Yes, that’s it, the brown one on the bottom, way in the back…how much for that one?”
It’s “art” – website has an article on the installation.
its actually a piece of artwork
by the same artist who did the crack in the floor of the in the tate in london.
still crazy thoughhh
The old man slowly turns to the boy and says “You have an interest in that chair? The brown one way in the back, on the very bottom? No my son, do not look at that chair. Turn your eyes away and pick another one, quickly before it is too late!”
its in japan i think,iv read about this,its a art work thingy thing
What i am wondering is at the bottom is that all the chairs just sort of stop… even ones that you know should have more show of them… if you can make sense of that… not going to yell “SHOPPED” but it could be a number of reasons… for instance they cut it level like that, or whatever the chairs are on is lower than the street the man is on… or it is shopped
Look at the bottom of the stack.. Its fake…
http://www.hbs.edu/schwartz/items/salcedodoris175.html
For all the “fake” and “photoshopped” calls out there.
2003 Istanbul. Doris Salcedo installation representing the people who have been “disappeared”.
actually it might be one of those cool 3d chalk pictures and that’s why it has the flat bottom? either way its cool shopped or not
@ib
One word: basement.
I read an article on this! It’s actually a piece of art. It was made somewhere in Europe by this female artist. I don’t remember much but I do remember it took more than 1000 chairs to created this.
@Vintage.t
You can’t be more wrong. It is actually Turkish. The building on the left is some kind of a small factory. The probably bought the chairs as bulk to use them as raw material or simply as firewood.
The politically charged temporality of the event of commemoration was again evident in Salcedo’s Installation for the 8th Istanbul Biennale (2003). In the empty space between two buildings in central Istanbul, Salcedo piled up 1,550 wooden chairs to commemorate anonymous victims, evoking the interweaving of personal stories in something akin to a collective mass grave. This unearthing of the memory transforms the space but not the memory, creating the same paradoxical tensions between order, chaos and temporality. This image of chaos constructed via the use of wooden chairs is synonymous with Salcedo’s preoccupation with a paradoxical present tense that simultaneously enfolds ‘urgency’ and ‘delay’; ‘there is vertigo in violence: if one violent element wipes out another, and so on, time gathers momentum and complete chaos ensues. The only way of attempting to check this speed, this chaos, is through the process of the artwork.’ 18
Thus in Salcedo’s site-specific installation Noviembre 6 y 7 (Bogotá, Colombia, 2002) wooden chairs were slowly lowered over the façade of the building of the Palace of Justice to commemorate the political massacre of 1985.16 The temporal duration of the performance was crucial: at 11:35 am (the time when the first victim of the original siege was assassinated) the first chair was lowered, and at different speeds and intervals, another 280 chairs followed over the 53 hours of the performance, equaling the duration of the siege. Staging such a politically charged act in the original place of the event risked opening up the wound of the original memory.
@ib
Thats cos its on a hill, the chairs are slightly lower than the part of the road that looks like the bottom.
Take a chair, leave a chair.
Bravo!@chaetophile
chairs is probly wobblies. YAY FOR BAD GRAMMARZ!!!
BAD GRAMMARZ!
in soviet russia, the chairs sit on you.
The signs on the side say “More Seating Downstairs”
Oh, yeah, the Turks are totally ready to join the EU; pointless street art is one of the prerequisites.
haha i want to go and pull one out an see if they all go… like JENGA
@nazani14
Very good ! Thank you.
CRUELEST. OFFICE. PRANK. EVER.
This reminds me of a strange exhibition in a french hospital chapel :
http://www.lesite.tv/index.cfm?nr=2&f=0000.0675.00
I’ve always hated musical chairs. This takes my hatred to a whole new level.