Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Post War & Contemporary Art 
Ján Mančuška, 800 Ways to Describe a Chair - Image 1 of 5
Ján Mančuška, 800 Ways to Describe a Chair - Image 2 of 5
Ján Mančuška, 800 Ways to Describe a Chair - Image 3 of 5
Ján Mančuška, 800 Ways to Describe a Chair - Image 4 of 5
Ján Mančuška, 800 Ways to Describe a Chair - Image 5 of 5
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Ján Mančuška 1972–2011

800 Ways to Describe a Chair

2004
BB gunshot remnants on wall chair: 34⅝ h × 15½ w × 16½ d in (88 × 39 × 42 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $7,560
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For 800 Ways to Describe A Chair, Mančuška placed a chair against a gallery wall, and fired hundreds and hundreds of shots at it with a BB/pellet gun. The chair was removed, leaving behind a silhouette, a ghost of itself. To re-create the work, the new owner should use the original chair and pellet gun offered here in a setting of their choosing. The finished artwork is the resulting “drawing” created by the gunshot remnants.

Photos are courtesy of Andrew Kreps Gallery and represent a prior installation that was created using a different chair.
provenance: Zwirner & Wirth, New York | Acquired from the previous in 2006 by the present owner

This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

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The collision of two principles of consideration is always present in my works: the conceptual, which begins with the critical delimitation of the medium, and the existential, which often refers to incarnation or narration... The moment at which these two things meet is then fundamental.

Ján Mančuška

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