Robert Therrien
American, 1947-2019
Robert Therrien (American, born 1947). No title (folding table and chairs, beige), 2006. Paint, metal, and fabric; table: 96 x 110 x 110 inches (243.8 x 279.4 x 279.4 cm); four chairs: 104 x 64 x 72 inches (264.2 x 162.6 x 182.9 cm) each, unfolded. Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 2007 (2007:1a-e). © Robert Therrien / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
No title (folding table and chairs, beige), 2006
Artwork Details
Materials
paint, metal, and fabric
Measurements
table: 96 x 110 x 110 inches (243.84 x 279.4 x 279.4 cm); four chairs, each (unfolded): 104 x 64 x 72 inches (264.16 x 162.56 x 182.88 cm)
Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Credit
Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 2007
Accession ID
2007:1a-e
Robert Therrien often simplifies the forms and manipulates the scale of everyday items to create monumental sculptures. In No title (folding table and chairs, beige), Therrien enlarges a nondescript folding table and chairs into a dramatic, gallery-filling installation. The artist was inspired by a series of Polaroid photographs he had taken of the underside of his table—a view most of us have not encountered since childhood. By inviting us to see familiar domestic objects from unconventional perspectives, Therrien’s sculpture transforms our spatial sense and offers us an opportunity to experience everyday objects with new eyes.
Label from Out of Sight! Art of the Senses, November 4, 2017–January 28, 2018
