{"id":12571,"date":"2021-02-17T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/?p=12571"},"modified":"2021-05-20T10:56:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T10:56:44","slug":"adam-mcewen-instrument-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/adam-mcewen-instrument-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam McEwen Instrument, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The tenant\u2019s cans from when I was a kid, they keep me interested. And I do it because I believe, I suppose, that if I stick a chair leg in the can, and it disturbs me and says something, then it will say something to somebody else-to someone I dont even know. I dont really know what the feeling I\u2019m trying to evoke is, but in this case it\u2019s not a good feeling.
Adam McEwen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instrument<\/em>, 2014, chair, beer cans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The work Instrument<\/em> was presented in the artist\u2019s solo show \u00ab Non-Alignment Pact \u00bb at the gallery Art: Concept in 2014.
This work, like Conduit<\/em>, which was also presented in the exhibition shares a common mise en sc\u00e8ne of a tortured yet absent body. Conduit<\/em>, a steel pipe stuck in a desk chair, creates a vertical axis that we imagine penetrated the seated form. It\u2019s reminiscent of a cinematographic image of an empalement, (Cannibal Holocaust) which left its trace of a generation of cinephiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adam McEwen Conduit<\/em>, 1997-2014, chair, steel pipe<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We also find this relationship to cinema in Instrument<\/em>, a work which plays at once with torture and desire. A chair is usually used for working at a desk or at a table. It\u2019s what allows humans to think in a comfortable way. In this sculpture, Adam McEwen transforms it into a place of conflict, a place of doubt where demons troubling the concentration necessary to creation. The chair is at once trapped and a trap, it becomes a sort of castrating embrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adam McEwen Instrument<\/em>, 2014 (detail) <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The tenant\u2019s cans from when I was a kid, they keep me interested. And I do it because I believe, I suppose, that if I stick a chair leg in the can, and it disturbs me and says something, then it will say something to somebody else-to someone I dont even know. I dont really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viewing-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12571"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14229,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571\/revisions\/14229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}