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Robert Therrien
American, 1947–2019
1993
A monumental painted-wood, brass, and steel table installed in a gallery corner that enlarges an ordinary domestic object into an uncanny, childlike presence.
At first sight it reads as a familiar table blown up out of proportion—its thick, tapered leg meets the marble floor while the oversized top seems to press into the walls, creating a disorienting sense of scale and memory.
Therrien’s oversized domestic forms transformed everyday furniture into psychological landscapes, advancing installation sculpture by using scale and familiarity to evoke memory, wonder, and disorientation.
Medium
Painted wood, brass and steel
Dimensions
9' 5 1/2" x 10' 10" x 9' 1/2" (288.4 x 330.2 x 275.6 cm)
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Department
Credit
Ruth and Seymour Klein Foundation, Inc. Fund and Robert B. and Emilie W. Betts Foundation Fund
Accession
285.1994.a-i
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