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Starting in 1958, Bruno Munari created a series of bent fork pieces called Forchette Parlanti (Talking Forks) which were published by Danese.  They bear a striking resemblance to some gag forks I found on eBay. I’m starting to think that Munari might have been aware of these gags while making his series as I came across this quote of his: “A closed fork for ladies who have diet problems, a fork to indicate on the menu, a fork to ask for permission, a fork for hitchhiking, etc”. Many of the gag forks were promoted as “diet forks” so the connection between Munari’s series and the gag spoons can be pretty directly drawn. To make matters worse I’m going to intermingle the two projects- odd-numbered images are Munari, even-numbered are gag forks. Some of the images are from MoMA’s website and some from eBay.

Love gag cutlery. It’s never met a bending knife (or fork or spoon) I didn’t like.

These educational games are known by many different names, including think-it-through tiles or the tutor system of tiles, etc. They come in many different configurations and colours. Here are a couple favourites.

Ten years ago Two Circles (2016), was unveiled. Made up of approx. 830,000 individually-made ceramic sticks, each broken in half to make the over 1.6 million elements. The gap between the broken parts creates a ragged line through each horizontal row. At one point in each row, this line is disrupted and goes out of alignment. (See detail image 7). There is one of these disruptions in every row, some more pronounced than others. South wall (black circle) is 26 feet wide by 30.5 feet tall. North wall (outlined circle) is 24 feet wide by 47.5 feet tall. Each circle is 22 feet diameter. Fabricated by @instamosaika. Installed in the lobby of @bayadelaidecentre. Made with the assistance of @lnaftolin. Rina Greer was the art consultant. Photos by @tomarbanphotography.

Seems kind of appropriate to repost this today. A drawing series of mine from 2008. The idea was to write out the phrase, three words per line, until it resolved itself perfectly with the last word of the phrase as the third word on the line. I made a few versions of the drawing. (For the record, he loves me.)

Thomas Schütte, Kollektion, 1980, fabric, various lengths, installed in the offices of Rudiger Schöttle’s gallery in Munich. @galerieruedigerschoettle

Nicolai Bejder’s “Flight of Form: An Investigation into Systemic Performance and Entropic Geometry” is a beautifully designed bookwork, published in a numbered edition of 67. (The importance of that number is revealed in the following paragraph.) The book consists of a sequence of images, created by the systematic addition of simple geometric shapes, starting with one shape and ending with 67 shapes. The shapes are from Spiel Matema Formenspiel Schroedel Nr. 63003, a vintage German geometry play set (see last image). Nicolai explains the process: “67 plastic shapes are launched one by one from the position of a camera lens onto a sheet of paper. Each piece is added without removing the previous, resulting in an evolving field of overlaps, collisions, and visual noise. Every stage is documented through photography, capturing the transformation from order to chaos. Normally I take my own photos of items I post about, but I’m using Nicolai’s images as they are great. I believe the book is still available. Check out @nicolaibejderstudio’s page for info.

A close-up detail of the baked porcelain enamel elements that make up my wall drawing Fig.79. Here’s some images by Toni Hafkenscheid of the installation at @mkg127 last fall.

In dialogue with yesterday’s post about the two Indian coins.

“My Souvenir” is a series of brief conversations with our friends and collaborators about their most precious objects and the stories attached to them. My Souvenir 03: Micah Lexier Circle to Square (Magic Trick) “I found this at a flea market in Toronto. It has everything I love in an object. It’s an envelope and anyone who knows me, knows that there are few things I love more than an envelope.  The envelope is rubber-stamped on the front with red ink, and if there’s anything I love more than an envelope, it’s a rubber-stamped envelope.  And lastly, the envelope contains a very simple metal magic trick, consisting of four thin strips of metal joined together with rivets. The rivets act as hinges allowing the four elements to transform into a circle or a square, to transform from a circle to a square, and vice versa.  About a decade ago I started a little company to take on public art projects. I liked the phrase Circle to Square so much that I named my company after it.” 📸 by Dimitri Levonoff

Two stainless steel coins that are part of the Hasta Mudras (hand gesture) series, issued by the Republic of India between 2007-2011.

To follow up yesterday’s post, here is a work of mine from 2011 that deals with the slippages of measurement. It’s a pair of birding books which have been placed side by side. On the back of each of the birding books was a printed ruler for the birders to use to get a precise measurement of a found bird. (I guess they mean a found dead bird, but I digress.) But because the ruler was printed on fabric, and the fabric was stretched on boards in order to construct the book’s covers, not all the rulers were accurate. My artwork juxtaposed two books whose measurements did not sync up. In many ways it’s very much like Morris’ Three Rulers, a work I was not aware of at the time of making this work. This work was including in my 2011 “Things Exist” exhibition which consisted of a number of found objects that were framed/claimed/contextualized. This pair of birding books was placed in a custom-made vitrine and shown along with four other works presented in the same way. This work is now in the collection of @terryburgoyne.