Poster of A Chair

A Chair

Plot: One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of a chair to the accompaniment of the firecracker pops of television static. While formally minimal, A Chair is conceptually challenging in its simplicity and its demand that the audience zero in on, of all things, a simple chair
Release Date: Thursday, January 1 1970
55 years ago
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Portrait of Takahiko IimuraTakahiko Iimura
Takahiko Iimura was
32 in A Chair
as 'Director'
Sat, Feb 20 1937