
December 2021
Bas Jan Ader at Meliksetian | Briggs
Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader presented his installation and performance work, Light Vulnerable Objects Threatened by Eight Cement Bricks, at Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts) in June 1970, five years before he mysteriously disappeared at sea. The piece featured eight cinder blocks hanging precariously from ropes, beneath which Adar placed various objects ranging from string lights and a transistor radio to a birthday cake and pile of eggs. An oil painting beneath one cinderblock…
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