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5. Proforma, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (1996-1997)
publisher Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
The last venue of 'Proforma' was the Kröller–Müller Museum in Otterlo, from October 10 1996 – January 20 1997. At this time it was already decided that the Kröller–Müller Museum would purchase Clamp. The museum had requested to reinforce the floor parts and this was done with the painted side down. This means the paint stains on the former studio floor can no longer be seen. Instead traces of glue applied with a glue comb are visible. Franz West attended the installation of the Clamp himself.
The structure of the Clamp is similar to Basel. It consisted of three walls with one side left open to enter. Some parts of the walls have been papered over with pages from the local Dutch phonebook, but the larger part of the walls were left as they were. Some narrow pieces of fibreboard were added on the back of the walls as a lock to combine the cut pieces together again. These were either papered or painted white matching the appearance of the wall where are located.
The interior contained one table, one bench and two tables with 'Telephone Sculptures', 'Papille' and one 'Plakatenentwurf'. 'Plato’s Sun' was hung on the outside of one of its walls, with one bench and a table underneath. 'Rondell' and one table with 'Telephone Sculptures' were placed outside the Clamp.
There is no evidence that the texts were used in the installation as part of the artwork. There is no visual evidence of the presence of the red stained telephone Franz West provided the museum with, other then the recollection of some peoples memories and they all seem to differ from one another.
 Attribution Non-commercial
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