Julian Opie
Gallery Staff Vase
London, UK: Cristea Roberts Gallery, 2011
14 3/4 x 11 1/4 x 11 1/4"
Unlimited edition
An open edition ceramic vase packaged in a cardboard box. The vase depicts scenes from Opie’s Gallery Staff silhouette series (the screenprint on glass work, above) and vinyl window work (see quote below).
The work brings to mind an excellent wallpaper project that Art Metropole published, shortly before I began working there. Titled Siezures, by Garry Neill Kennedy, the work consisted of appropriated silhouette images of employers admonishing employees, taken from corporate conflict management training sessions brochures [see below].
"The first window vinyl is called Gallery Staff and depicts 5 members of a London gallery in changing poses (there are two other sets). Like an animated black and white film they take up alternate poses that tell different stories. They will be seen again once inside the museum.”
- Julian Opie
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