Year: 2013
Medium: acrylic on wood with glass
Dimensions: 75.6 x 152.4 x 152.4 cm (29 3/4 x 60 x 60 in.)
Acquired from Sotheby's, 2022
Nicolas Party is known for painting in everyday spaces beyond the canvas, including murals, furniture, ceramics, and floors. This work is a round table covered with the colorful almond-shaped patterns he frequently employs in his works. The wall painting in particular is not intended as an installation for exhibition, but as a way to question how paintings should be accepted within the exhibition space. In this work, the tabletop as well as the four legs all serve as the painting’s support. The work deviates from the conventional framework of a square-canvas painting hanging on a wall and enters into everyday spaces through the functional merging of a painting and a table. In the Ueshima Collection, the work is placed in the museum’s open-shelf library section, and free for visitors to engage with it.
