Richard Artschwager writes: "To make art, artists are like thieves, watching for a door left open. At the beginning of the 1960s, I painted a chair on a chair. I painted a chest of drawers on a chest of drawers. A hopeless entanglement of painting and sculpture. Is that what I was looking for? Minimal Art, Pop art... artists learn from other artists but desperately want their art to be unique... But the categories happen. The sense that there is such a thing as sets is at least 50,000 years old. But in your time and when it comes to art, the encounter should be naked, naïve and free of prejudgment . My originality, if any, lies in good part in paradoxes: useful/useless, object/image, etc." This volume is a comprehensive full-color documentation of the artist's paintings/sculptures/furniture.
Richard Artschwager writes: "To make art, artists are like thieves, watching for a door left open. At the beginning of the 1960s, I painted a chair on a chair. I painted a chest of drawers on a chest of drawers. A hopeless entanglement of painting and sculpture. Is that what I was looking for? Minimal Art, Pop art... artists learn from other artists but desperately want their art to be unique... But the categories happen. The sense that there is such a thing as sets is at least 50,000 years old. But in your time and when it comes to art, the encounter should be naked, naïve and free of prejudgment . My originality, if any, lies in good part in paradoxes: useful/useless, object/image, etc." This volume is a comprehensive full-color documentation of the artist's paintings/sculptures/furniture.