Dimensions: image: 250 x 302 mm
Copyright: © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2014 | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Richard Artschwager's "Interior II" from an unknown date, part of the Tate collection. The wood-grain effect is so striking. What do you see in this rather eerie domestic scene? Curator: The wood grain isn't just decorative. Think of the tree. It represents life, growth, family. In this stark interior, these associations are twisted, aren't they? Like a memory distorted. Do you feel a sense of unease? Editor: Definitely. It's as if familiar objects are drained of their comfort. The wood grain feels almost like a warning sign. Curator: Exactly. Artschwager plays with our cultural understanding of these symbols. He challenges our sense of home, of security. Editor: It's fascinating how something so simple can be so unsettling. Thanks! Curator: Indeed. It reveals how much we rely on visual cues for meaning.
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Interior I plays with our expectations about particular types of media: it was based on a magazine photograph, but the exaggerated brush-strokes on the surface echo painterly gestures. Interior II relates to a series of drawings in which Artschwager presented the same six objects (a basket, table, door, window, mirror and rug), each time varying their surface, appearance and scale. In this work, the perspective has been exaggerated, so that the basket seems much larger than the door or table. Gallery label, September 2004
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