Der zweibeinige Stuhl
To make a chair talk: the two-legged chair as a figure of thought.
A two-legged chair is a contradiction in itself, a contradictio in adiecto, as it would be called in logic. But language can do that, because language and its users are free to suspend Western logic, itself a binary form of thinking. The somewhat disturbing marriage of words, however, has its justification not only as a linguistic image. In this presentation of works with this title, it stands for a figure of thought that seeks to do justice to the phenomenon of fine art. Warning: there are no two-legged chairs to be found here.
Not that these two-legged鈥攊llogical鈥攃hairs do not exist, along with onelegged stools or three-legged footrests. But only chairs with four legs are truly stable and statistically optimal, that is, defy gravity and support the person sitting over the floor, and for that reason they are the general rule. But art couldn鈥檛 care less about rules. It can even suspend physical laws like that of gravitation, or at least try to do so. Right before our own eyes.
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To make a chair talk: the two-legged chair as a figure of thought.
A two-legged chair is a contradiction in itself, a contradictio in adiecto, as it would be called in logic. But language can do that, because language and its users are free to suspend Western logic, itself a binary form of thinking. The somewhat disturbing marriage of words, however, has its justification not only as a linguistic image. In this presentation of works with this title, it stands for a figure of thought that seeks to do justice to the phenomenon of fine art. Warning: there are no two-legged chairs to be found here.
Not that these two-legged鈥攊llogical鈥攃hairs do not exist, along with onelegged stools or three-legged footrests. But only chairs with four legs are truly stable and statistically optimal, that is, defy gravity and support the person sitting over the floor, and for that reason they are the general rule. But art couldn鈥檛 care less about rules. It can even suspend physical laws like that of gravitation, or at least try to do so. Right before our own eyes.
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