We went to the Arvada Center to see In SITu: Chairs From Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art and it turns out that the other gallery (In SITu: From the Artist’s Perspective) was waaay better.
We didn’t realize that these samurai were made out of chairs until we saw the second one.
They asked a bunch of local artists to show a piece of art with a chair from their studio. They placed the chair so you could view their art in their studio chair with stories and anecdotes about the chair. It gave you a personal insight into the artists’ perspective. We also met the curator who told us how the project all came together.
Ikea donated 50 simple chairs and the curator gave them to 50 artists with no instructions whatsoever to make them “Art”. Te results were great, and you could buy the chairs at auction.
The Kirkland chairs were the part I was looking forward to, but there weren’t many in the gallery. However, I may reverse engineer this one to be a CNC project.
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