Tag Archives: viewer


B. Wurtz

Wurtz_Slide Cube (from series), 35 mm slides, 5 x 5 x 5 cm, 1979

B. Wurtz, ‘Slide Cube’ (1979)

35 mm slides, 5 x 5 x 5 cm.


Luis Camnitzer

luis_camnitzer-This is a mirror.You are a written sentence-1966

Luis Camnitzer, ‘This is a mirror. You are a written sentence’ (1966)


Anonymous Flemish artist

The panel below is what one would see when today’s diptych is closed.  The grinning gent holds a scroll that warns, “Leave this panel closed, otherwise you’ll be angry with me.”

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(closed)

Upon opening the diptych, the viewer is greeted with an ass shot of the cheeky man from the closed panel and opposite it, a fool who makes a hilarious gesture, mocking the viewer’s disobedience.

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(open)

A scroll on the full-moon panel declares, “It’s not my fault because I warned you in advance!”  On the right panel, another scroll proclaims, “Moreover, we wanted to warn you so you wouldn’t jump out the window!”

The thistle protruding from the flasher’s undies is a symbol of pain, defense, and misanthropy.

By an unknown Flemish painter.


Helio Oiticica

Helio Oiticica, Bolide 3 Caixa 3 Africana, 1963

Helio Oiticica, ‘Bolide 3 Caixa 3 Africana’ (1963)


Stefan Brüggemann

Stefan Bruggemann, Lectura de una realidad, 2011

Stefan Brüggemann, ‘Lectura de una realidad’, 2011


Gabriel von Max

Gabriel von Max monkey viewing painting
Gabriel von Max, ‘Monkey viewing a painting’ (18??)


Gerhard Richter

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Gerhard Richter, ‘Two Sculptures for a Room by Palermo’ (1971)

Two plaster heads, painted with gray oil paint, one a self-portrait of Richter, the other a portrait of the German artist Blinky Palermo. The heads face each other across the room, with eyes closed as if each artist is actually looking inward.


Charles Ray

charles ray_Shelf-w-viewer

‘Shelf’ (1981) by Charles Ray


Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Fragment of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller‘s work at Documenta (13), ‘Alter Bahnhof Video Walk’ (2012)

Viewers are given an ipod and headphones and asked to follow the prerecorded video through the old train station in Kassel. The overlapping realities lead to a strange, perceptive confusion in the viewers brain.


Leon van den Langenberg

‘Kijker’ (‘Viewer’) (2003) by Leon van den Langenberg