Originally posted on 2016.3.21.
I really loved this show!
1ST FLOOR
STAIRS
Stairs - the view from the second floor
Red cabinet
A ROOM
The wire sculptures were spread everywhere.
It was very fun to find them and took photos of them.
The desk - books and stamp
The mint color chair
A flapper on the wall was very unexpected
The docent said they found this from his garage -
she said it is not sure it is done or in progress.
WIRE SCULPTURES ON THE WALL
Wire sculpture &
The tiny sculpture on the wall
The reflections of the wall are even artistic
OTHER ARTISTS
Alfred Fitzgerald
The portrait of Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp and a little sculpture under the shelf
Joseph Beuys & more dumb balls - I heard from a docent that dumb balls are named like that because he made it without thinking; the balls were made by throwing in both hands until it hardens. According to the docent, it took about 12-24 hours to get hardened? Anyways, that is intense! Conceptually and physically.
A doodle on the wall - probably from the previous tentant of the house or not as a docent said David Ireland tried to keep the marks form the people lived there.
White and blue - I don't know what they are - maybe clays?
The concrete book end
The closet
The coner - stained beautifully
One of his later pieces - A docent said David Ireland took this piece as a painting and he used the paint box contained the yellow paint he painted on the box.
The window view from the house he used to live
Yellow celling with stains - beautiful
The aisle
LIVING ROOM
A tooth, right?
The fire place
A docent told that this was actually working - though I don't exactly remember how it worked - the bottles contained certain gases and when he put the fire on the tip of the bottles and they bounced violently. The docent said David Ireland did it just to scare some critics who visited him.
Visitors' book?
I would want to get one of his standing lamps
Some powder in jars in the Coca Cola box
BEDROOM
The bed and horns in his bedroom
Horns must symbolize his ambition - my interpretation
This little small detail - I admire the curators and artists who worked for this show!
There was this sticker on the wall of his bedroom
D I - David Ireland
BALCONY NEXT TO BEDROOM
Sit!
Tape recorder & Dumb ball! Tape recorder was playing a conversation. Too bad I couldn't really catch what was going on in that conversation.
Broom Collection with Boom
Broom Collection with Boom - A docent said David Ireland used the brooms from the former tenant who was a hoarder.
DOWNSTAIRS - KITCHEN
At the kitchen - he had a lot of animal bones because he went to Kenya for the military service? Not sure. I think I heard he served for pretty long time in the military. I need some research on him.
The concrete icecream - humor.
It is funny that the plastic globe is squeezed behind the bone
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I paid $10 for this exhibition. I kinda wished I had paid more, but at the same time I thought about how smart the curators to make audience feel they want to pay more.
