Barbara Kruger
Untitled (Kiss), 2019
Artek Stool 60. Design Alvar Aalto.
Solid birch, birch plywood, laminate
44 × 38 × 38 cm.
From a limited edition of 600, published by the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 2019
Untitled (Kiss), 2019
Artek Stool 60. Design Alvar Aalto.
Solid birch, birch plywood, laminate
44 × 38 × 38 cm.
From a limited edition of 600, published by the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 2019
Untitled (Kiss), 2019
Artek Stool 60. Design Alvar Aalto.
Solid birch, birch plywood, laminate
44 × 38 × 38 cm.
From a limited edition of 600, published by the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 2019
Untitled (Kiss) (2019) marries Alvar Aalto’s classic piece of modern furniture design, Stool 60, with a newly commissioned work by conceptual artist Barbara Kruger.
With a career spanning the past fifty years, Kruger is internationally known for her pictures and words. Her photographic works, expansive installations and multichannel videos engage issues of power, gender, identity and value.
Finished in Kruger’s signature black, white and red, this bespoke stool was produced in an initial multiple of 300 with a final continuation of a further 300. Each stool is hand-numbered and finished on the underside with the artist’s stamp of authenticity.
“This project has been a wonderful opportunity to work with Aalto’s classic piece of modernist furniture, while at the same time supporting the ICA, the first institution that offered me a one-person show of my work in 1983. I was honoured, a bit intimidated, but hugely thrilled by both the ICA and the complex and vital city that was, is, and will always be London. The memory of that exhibition, the wonderful space, the excitement and buzz of the ICA’s programme of visuality and intellectually rigorous public programming, its bookstore and crazily cool cafe, will never fade in my mind.”