Allan McCollum - Visible Marker Drawing #207

Allan McCollumVisible Marker (Drawing) #2071998Pencil on rag paper5.5” x 7.5”, as framedPresented in ebonized wood frame, retains Xavier Hufkens Gallery label verso “People accuse me of making fun of the art world, of cynically satirizing it,” Allan McCollum (American; b. 1944) once said. The truth is McCollum believes that art should be for everyone. So much so that in 2005 he began “The Shapes Project”, a system that allows him to hand-design 31 billion two-dimensional shapes with no two alike - far more than enough to put original art into the hands of everyone on the planet. McCollum is perhaps best known for his “Perfect Vehicles” sculptures that all bear the same shape - that of a Chinese ginger jar, a traditional vessel that has been copied and reproduced for centuries. He is interested in the way in which a simple thing (a painting or a photograph or even a fossilized dinosaur bone) makes the journey from object to icon to symbol.Offered here is Visible Marker (Drawing) #207 -