John Chamberlain

Tiny Piece #1

1961

Like a three-dimensional collagist, Chamberlain assembled, bent, and compacted colored sheets of steel and other metals from automobiles or, as seems to be the case here, from a manufactured domestic objects. Tiny Piece #1 represents or narrates nothing; it is inherently poetic—the artist’s personal choice in selecting the parts he felt “fit” together determinine the carefully balanced aesthetic outcome: “Some seem to think that I work with found pieces, but I don’t. They’re chosen, you see […] there has been a lot of magic implied in the choice.”

On view

Artist John Chamberlain
Date 1961
Medium Painted and chromium-plated steel
Dimensions 16.5 x 25.4 x 22.9 cm
Credit line Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, bequest of Hannelore B. Schulhof, 2012
Accession 2012.36
Collection Schulhof Collection
Type Sculpture

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