Robert Therrien thinks big. He is a very famous artist who happens to show at Gaggoisian, yet no one really knows much of him. He is quiet, does not play the art game and lets his work speak for itself. He actually got his ideas crawling under furniture and taking photographs. This summer he gets a solo museum show….
Wednesday, July 3–Sunday, October 27, 2013
Mr. Therrien’s breakthrough came in 1992, when he returned to photography and began shooting the spaces under an old wooden table. He was fascinated by the object’s underside and by the hidden engineering made visible in the photos. “It would be perfect just to have that as a sculpture,” he recalls thinking. He set out to make a table that was so big that viewers could get a good look at its details, as they would in one of his photographs. The Brobdingnag object he ended up fabricating, which was 10 feet tall, became the first in a series of household goods that he has scaled up to three and a half times their normal size.
