Preservation and Presentation of Installation Art

Kosuth, Joseph

Glass (one and three)

01. Introduction
02. Research questions
03. Certificate of Glass (one and three)
04. Kosuth on his work
05. Similar work
06. Making a new photograph
07. Conservation
08. List of parts
09. Installation history
10. Resume

Certificate of Glass (one and three) (pdf/233kb)

03. Certificate of Glass (one and three) (1976)
creator(s) Joseph Kosuth
publisher Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Certificate of Glass (one and three), 1976
Pencil and ink on paper, 30,3 x 45,5 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, KM 125.436

The certificate provides an important guideline of how to install the work. Kosuth had sent this to Fernand Spillemaeckers from gallery MTL, the Belgium partner of Art & Project, who sold the work to Geertjan Visser.
This document describes how to realize the installation. A drawing and some notes show the object: 'glass leaning', and the way this should be depicted in the photograph left of it: 'photograph of glass leaning'. On the right of the object a scrap of paper was glued indicating that a textual definition is to be hung to the right of the object: 'dictionary definition/translation of 'glass' [Eng-Flemish]'.

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