Preservation and Presentation of Installation Art

Kosuth, Joseph

Glass (one and three)

1. Installation history
2. 'Recent acquisitions', Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
3. 'Una Giornata al Mare', Kröller-Müller Museum
4. 'Raw Material', Kröller-Müller Museum
5. 'A choice from the collection Visser', Kröller-Müller Museum
6. 'Conceptual Art in The Netherlands and Belgium 1965-1975', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
7. 'Inside Installations I', Kröller-Müller Museum
8. 'Inside Installations II', Kröller-Müller Museum

2. 'Recent acquisitions', Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (1982)
creator(s) Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
publisher Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

'Glass (one and three)' was shown for the first time in the Kröller-Müller Museum during a show of recent acquisitions, November 13 - December 12, 1982. In spite of the title on the certificate the work was called 'One and three glass' at that time, analogue to the other 'object definitions' by Kosuth, like 'One and three chair' for instance. A registration photograph of this exhibition shows Kosuth’s 'Glass (one and three)' at the far right in the background of 'A copper ribbon' by Carl Andre and 'Angry' by Gilbert & George. This photo was used in the catalogue of the 1992 exhibition 'Una giornata al mare - A choice form the collection of Geertjan Visser', only cropped so that Kosuth's installation is not really recognizable anymore. Yet it is still visible how the museum showed the work the way it was originally made for Visser in 1977, including the photograph made in his Antwerp apartment. By doing so the site related aspect of the installations was lost.

PHOTO: Kröller-Müller Museum