Chair/Chair no. 31

Chair/Chair no. 31

<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;white-space-collapse:preserve;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;" class="TextRun SCXW63437849 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="NormalTextRun SCXW63437849 BCX0">This chair is composed of five letters, cut from aluminium plate: C, H, A, I, R. Similar to puzzle pieces, the letters have been combined to form a chair, resulting in a chair made from the word ‘chair’. Ku was inspired by the work </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;white-space-collapse:preserve;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;" class="TextRun SCXW63437849 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="NormalTextRun SCXW63437849 BCX0">One and Three Chairs</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;white-space-collapse:preserve;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;" class="TextRun SCXW63437849 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="NormalTextRun SCXW63437849 BCX0">by the artist Joseph Kosuth. Like Kosuth, Ku is out to provoke questions about the definition of a chair. Take this chair apart, and you are still left with a ‘chair’.[text 2023]</span></span>

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This chair is composed of five letters, cut from aluminium plate: C, H, A, I, R. Similar to puzzle pieces, the letters have been combined to form a chair, resulting in a chair made from the word ‘chair’. Ku was inspired by the work One and Three Chairsby the artist Joseph Kosuth. Like Kosuth, Ku is out to provoke questions about the definition of a chair. Take this chair apart, and you are still left with a ‘chair’.[text 2023]

This object is now not on display in the museum

Title

Chair/Chair no. 31

Artist

Eric Ku (Taipei 1982)

Dating

2010-01-01

Material and technique

hout?

Object number

35825

Object type

meubel, zitmeubel, stoel

Acquisition

aankoop 2023 (aankoop 2023, gedeeld eigendom met het Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven met steun van Gemeente Eindhoven, Mondriaan Fonds, Stichting Promotors Van Abbemuseum, VriendenLoterij)

Dimensions

Inscriptions and markings

    Exhibitions

    • Stoel neemt stelling, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2023 - 2024

    Persistent url

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    https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.70550db0-c783-4b31-9ef9-736c079fcb1e

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