Splatter Chair III

A real jack-of-all-trades, painter, sculptor and photographer, American artist Artschwager appropriated almost all the trends that had marked contemporary art since the 1960s: “Sculpture is for touching, painting is for looking. I wanted to make sculpture for looking and painting for touching.” His work, inspired by Pop art, and the Conceptual and Minimalist movements, remains unique and highly singular.


He used Formica and plywood, the modern materials of the 1960s, with which he created constructions that allude to reality, but which challenge the object’s place in daily life. Artschwager spoke of his works as “useless objects.” With his “Splatter Chairs,” he brought into play the fundamental elements of their composition: volume, surface, texture, space. The result is an unbridled work of unquestionable originality.