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Franz West. Contemporary artists (1999)
creator(s) Franz West; Brice Curiger (author); Robert Fleck (author); Neal David Benezra (author)
publisher Phaidon
'Brice Curiger in conversation with Franz West', page 15:
Curiger: In recent years you have made large-scale spatial installations; the ’Proforma’ exhibition (Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, 1996), for instance, was very architectural, and so was Clamp (Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 1995). In Clamp, the installation included seven working telephones [he confuses 7 ’Telephone sculptures’ with 2 connected telephone sets – AK/SS May 6, 2007] and the walls were papered with pages from the telephone book. So that wasn’t about the Adaptives that you can get hold of, but about a telephone that you can use, and which vastly extends the immediate effect of the work.
West: Yes, only now you don’t need that any more. At the time I didn’t take into account that we already had mobile phones, but Clamp was just another of my experiments, a situation with a viewer. Actually all I really wanted to do was install my studio in the museum. I had just moved out of my studio, so I wanted to put that studio in there. In the studio where I now make sculptures, sometimes I get a phone call, and I get caught up in the call. I read during the day, and then in my sculptures I recapitulate what I have read. Then the phone rings, and while I’m taking the call, talking to someone else, I see it, I see the sculpture. If I were alone I would go on working and wouldn’t know when to stop. But then I see it while I’m talking on the phone, and it is at this point that I know I can leave it.
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Franz West. Contemporary artists, 160 p., London, ISBN 0-7148-3825-X
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