In 1995, for a little over a year, I did a "side-project." (I often have many, musicians understand this).
I did "Displaced Monochromes": monochrome paintings on stretched linen placed in odd "real-life containers" or situations.
It began as a kind of good-natured ribbing of the addiction of many Swiss artworld "powerful" (curators etc.) to what they called "Radical Painting," meaning monochromes.
However, I really got into it! A kind of inverted framing, an inside-out assisted readymade. They are, of course also potential metonymies of various aspects of culture as well (the other series I began at this time was based on metonymy and synecdoche).
It was short-lived; I should have pushed them more. I did one full room installation of them in a show titled "Sicht / Bar" in the short-lived Kunstraum Romanshorn, organized by the indefatigably creative Marcus Gossolt of the art team Com&Com). I realized a group of the objects and did a few other installations as well.

 

 

 

 

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