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5. Installation history (2007)
creator(s) Sanneke Stigter (conservator/art historian)
contributor(s) Annick Kleizen (researcher)
publisher Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Documents of the exhibition history show how the Clamp has changed over time, before as well as after the installation was acquired by the Kröller-Müller Museum. The work was shown at Carnegie International 1995 for the first time. Photographs from that time show how the Clamp provides a space integrated in the gallery while at the same time people are making themselves at home within the artwork, making a telephone call or simply hanging around. After this show the Clamp became part of Proforma, a travelling solo exhibition of Franz West with the Kröller-Müller Museum as the last venue for the Clamp. The installation was acquired and the Clamp was displayed in the Kröller-Müller Museum several times since, without the artist's supervision. The exhibition history shows how the objects of the installation are assembled freely at every other occasion, changing its constellation, which is according to the artist ideas. There is however a turning point in the history of the work after acquisition. The installation is not changed as drastically anymore in the style Franz West had designed for each new site. This is not strange, since the artist was not around, but it is interesting that this is rather typical once an artwork enters the museum collection. The freedom the museum was given to use the elements at will was not discarded. On the contrary, at some occasions one might wonder if the character of the work was not too much affected.
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