‘When you have a camera in your hand and call something art,people are prepared to achieve crazy and silly things’This is the director of the Künstlerhaus art gallery in Bremen. I helped him to keep the pens in his nose and ears because he couldn’t see much after he had taken off his glasses and keep film canisters in his eyes. Using just his face and these everyday items he was transformed into a living sculpture, and I quickly snapped him to document this short-lived artwork.
Taken in 1997, or it was one of the first pieces in a series that came to be known as One Minute Sculptures. I had been exploring the relationship between people and everyday objects for a few years,so when the Künstlerhaus invited me to keep on a one-man expose, I decided to make my work about the people employed there and the materials that surrounded them. I didnt send any artwork, and instead I went to the gallery 10 days early and created the pieces there. I asked the museum director to pick out the objects in his office that he regularly used for work.
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Source: theguardian.com