Vito Acconci, House of Used Parts, 1985
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House of Used Parts, 1985
Aluminum ladders, doors, windows, wood, canvas, and vinyl seat cushions
108 × 72 × 72 in. (274.3 × 182.9 × 182.9 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gerald S. Elliott Collection, 1995.23. Photo © MCA Chicago.
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- Chicago Works: Chris Bradley: A Vito Acconci Keychain00:31
- Short Someone's left hand holds an odd-looking structure over a white table filled with keys, lanyards, and spiraled keychains. The structure looks like a ladder bent into two chairs facing away from each other.
Collection
Vito Acconci, Bridge Chairs for Sex and Gender, 1984 - Short A pink chair and a blue chair made of out parts from metal ladders sit facing opposite directions, connected in the middle by a purple chair.
- Long The two chairs on the ground are spaced about five feet apart. The tall ladders that form the chair backs slope toward each other for five rungs until they meet to form a purple ladder-chair platform about eight feet off the ground.