monologue, dialogue

‘bicycle wheel’ by marcel duchamp, 1913 -
it was a personal experiment, which he never initially intended
to show to the public. in fact, ‘bicycle wheel’ wasn't formally
shown in a gallery space until 1951 (and by then the original
had been lost). duchamp's sister suzanne allegedly threw out
the original along with several other early readymades when
cleaning out the artist's studio on the rue saint-hippolyte in paris
after his move to the united states in 1915.



‘singer chair (for short visits)’ by bruno munari, 1946



chair with drawing by artist saul steinberg, circa 1952



‘pilgrim’ by robert rauschenberg, 1960




‘kichka's breakfast’ by daniel spoerri, 1960




‘shirt with objects on a chair’ by claes oldenburg, 1962




‘wrapped chair ’ by christo,1961




‘fat chair’ by joseph beuys, 1964




‘untitled’ by pieter engels, 1964




richard artschwager, table and chair, 1964




‘one and three chairs’ by joseph kosuth,1965
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‘untitled’ by lucas samaras, 1965




ladder and chair, by alighiero boetti, 1966




chair by allen jones, 1969





chairs and table by donald judd, a series started in 1973




‘MAgriTTA chair’ by by sebastian matta, 1970




neon table and chair by joe rees, 1975




‘brushstroke chair’ by roy lichtenstein, 1986




‘untitled’ by daniel spoerri, 1988.
grass makes an unmistakably overt sculptural statement in the
form of oversized, grass-covered armchairs and couches.




‘shit in your hat - head on a chair ’ by bruce nauman, 1990




splatter chair by richard artschwager, 1992




‘chair table and flower pot’ by roy lichtenstein, 1992





(title unknown) by louise bourgeois (date ?)




‘seat for the rich on the lap of the poor’
by stepven cohen, 1993




‘table and chair’ by rachel whiteread, 1994




‘chair pool’ by dennis oppenheim, 1996




‘chair transformation number 20B’ by lucas samaras, 1996




‘the love difference table’ by michelangelo pistoletto, 1998




‘untitled’ by tom friedman, 1999
his school chair, drilled into skeletal oblivion.




formulation (stance) by tony cragg, 2000




kinetic furniture by theo kaccoufa, 2000




‘soft office with office chair’ by loris cecchini, 2001




‘gap’ by loris cecchini, 2001




‘haini’ by franz west, 2003.
chair like a tree-stump.




installation by doris salcedo,
created for the international istanbul biennale in 2003
and included over 1550 chairs stacked between two city buildings.




folding chair by iván navarro, 2005
appropriating the signature materials associated with artist dan flavin,
navarro builds visually dynamic, radiant structures such as tables and
chairs with fluorescent lights.





‘untitled’ by kutlug ataman, 2004




'neon tube chair' by paul tames van den berg, 2005




pencil installation by kerstin schulz, 2005





massage chair installation by yang zhenzhong, 2005




‘the black hole’ by michel de broin, 2006.
a large sphere composed of an assemblage of 72 chairs.
the legs are attached to one another, bringing the chairs together.
in this spherical conference room there is no central position,
all the chairs float in solidarity with each other.
they operate as an immune system – protecting themselves by blocking
and kicking out their surroundings. as a massive object of 400 cm.
in the gallery space, the sphere acts as a centre of gravity around
which the rest orbits. the reorganization of matter derives from a
‘big bang’ where the ancient order of the conference room has blown
out and reconfigured into a ‘utopic’ geometrical endosystem.






‘his chair’ by chiharu shiota, 2006.
the chair is standing on broken glass being spread on the floor.




'relativistic loop corrections to the chair function' by loris cecchini, 2007