Adad-ism Chair

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I recently visited the Canadian National Art Gallery and enjoyed Duchamp’s Dadaist work, Bicycle Wheel. Duchamp called this “Readymade” art, saying it became art as a result of the artist selecting the components. The concept of the “art of found objects” begs the question, can there be “objects of found art”? I think the answer is to create an everyday object out of found artworks.

I found two discarded wildlife paintings that gave me the idea to construct a chair, placing these Canadian art pieces upon statues of European art, symbolising the way that European art is the foundation of Canadian art.

My “Adad-ism” chair is the philosophical opposite of Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel. It is an everyday object, a chair, constructed out of pieces of art that I found. Ironically, although the whole point of this work was to create an opposite of Dadaism, because the artworks comprising my chair were found and chosen by me, this work also meets the definition of “Readymade” art.

Height 22 x Width 13 x Depth 12 inches

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Process Work