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John Chamberlain
Description
- John Chamberlain
- Gondola Muddy Waters
- painted and chromium-plated steel
- 26 1/2 by 153 by 23 in. 63.7 by 388.6 by 54.8 cm.
- Executed in 1982.
Provenance
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, John Chamberlain: Current Work and Fond Memories, Sculptures and Photographs 1967–1995, May - November, 1996, pp. 94 - 95, illustrated
New York, The Pace Gallery, Chamberlain at Pace, April - June 2011
Literature
Exh. Cat., New York, Dia Center for the Arts, John Chamberlain: Gondolas and Dooms Day Flotilla, New York, 1991, illustrated
Lance Esplund, "Fine Art: Crushed and Brushed" (The Pace Gallery exhibition review), Wall Street Journal, New York, May 14 – 15, 2011, section A22, installation view
Valerie Gladstone, "At the Galleries: Chamberlain at Pace" (exhibition review), City Arts, New York, June 15, 2011, section 13
Catalogue Note
On his inspiration for using old truck frames as armatures for his "Gondolas," John Chamberlain explained to Lawrence Weiner:
"With a truck frame you've got two long bars and the cross bar, so when you cut them down low and put them on their side you've got bars sticking up. But they're not all the same because they didn't get cut the same; they felt like different parts. I was fifty, eighty feet away and looked at them, and it was like dock pilings sticking up out of the water, but the dock was gone, and the pilings were still sticking up out of the shore where water meets land. I got such a rush out of it for some reason."