Dimensions: displayed: 2065 x 3460 x 310 mm, cases weigh 67kg/225kg/220kg.
Copyright: © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2014 | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Richard Artschwager's *Door/Door II*. It's quite striking, with these juxtaposed wooden and marbled elements. What’s your take on it? Curator: I see a deliberate challenge to our understanding of materials and their function. The faux bois finish, combined with the solidity of the wood, disrupts the expected relationship between surface and structure, questioning art and craft. Editor: So, it's about the process more than the subject matter? Curator: Exactly. Artschwager asks us to consider the labor involved in mimicking materials and the social implications of blurring those lines, right? How does this affect your understanding of artistic value? Editor: It makes me rethink what "real" even means in art. Curator: Precisely! It's about the dialogue between materiality, production, and our consumption of these manufactured realities.
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Artschwager’s furniture sculptures resemble usable objects, however they are completely non-functional. This work is made from painted wood and Formica, a cheap material employed by furniture makers to imitate the surface of wood. He wanted to make viewers feel the potential for physical involvement: ‘It’s good sport to perch one’s art on the cusp between usefulness and uselessness. It doesn’t get resolved until somebody is there, present. The body is essential to my work’. Gallery label, August 2018
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