Gareth James. The Screw. Being so designed, moves its way spatially on the basis of an optical illusion. Like the Barber's Shop pole, where a circumferential movement, if perfectly steady, looks nothing like an impotent spinning around its axis (such as it is), 2005. Plexiglass, two-way mirror plexiglass, paper, turntables, bubble wrap, Overall: 48 × 36 × 24in. (121.9 × 91.4 × 61 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, P.2011.198. (Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art)

The Screw. Being so designed, moves its way spatially on the basis of an optical illusion. Like the Barber's Shop pole, where a circumferential movement, if perfectly steady, looks nothing like an impotent spinning around its axis (such as it is)

2005

Gareth James

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Maker/Artist: Gareth James
Classification: Installations
Formatted Medium: Plexiglass, two-way mirror plexiglass, paper, turntables, bubble wrap
Medium: plexiglass, two-way, mirror, paper, turntables, bubble, wrap
Dimensions: Overall: 48 × 36 × 24in. (121.9 × 91.4 × 61 cm)
Accession Number: P.2011.198
Credit Line: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner