Dec 09 2009
Chuck Close Jacquard Tapestry :: Art Basel 2009
This giant self-portrait of Chuck Close is not a painting…
but a tapestry with over 500 colors woven on a Jacquard loom in Berlin, Germany…
and purchased in Art Basel 2009 Miami [Scope Art Fair] for $120,000.
It could be argued using the transitive property
that this is a case of AOE- Art Over Everything
as opposed to the more traditional and widely accepted
MOE- Money Over Everything. Or maybe not.
Related TOE posts:
- Os Gemeos Comes to Miami :: Art Basel 2009
- Why Aren’t Books Per Se Sufficient for Public Consumption on the Art Market?
- I’m Ready for My Close-up, Mr. DeMille
- LeBron James, the New Chuck Norris
- Wynwood Art Walk :: November 2009
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Our first date in Paris was a Close show (class assignment I think, still have ticket stub). Huge blown up destroyed cigarettes, spilling leaf shreds bigger than my head. And many self-portraits. Didn’t see any tapestries.
I think there is a biggun in the Art Institute? Beard hair all out of focus and tube-like?