a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), 1999 - 2008
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), 1999-2008
installation of seven+ magazines erased with erasings
variable dimensions
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend)
This as yet unshown work consists of seven+ magazines that have been (almost) completely erased over the last decade; rubbed out, with an eraser, by hand, by the artist (unlike the Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette project shown at the Venice Biennale of Art in 2007 where the erasing was undertaken only by other people). The publications are assorted lifestyle and fashion magazines: Vogue, Marie Claire, Harper’s etc, dating from around 1996-1998. Post-erasure, all that remains in each of these different magazines is the same double page advertisement spread-detail, plus incidentals like page numbering. Their covers also remain intact.
Each magazine has its own substantial pile of rubber erasings that were cast-off in the process of its erasure. These gleanings are the magazines' insides-out, so to speak. In a couple of instances part, or all, of the erasings from a magazine have been kept separate in distinct page-piles.
It is anticipated that on completion of this work all the magazines, together with their masses of erasings, will form a large installation which will be versatile in its configuration.