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Masking tape as art? Whatever! The Brooklyn Museum is making it so, however, with Sun K. Kwak's Enfolding 280 Hours installation. The New York-based artist has created her masterpiece from approximately three miles of black masking tape in the fifth-floor Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery. She began installing the piece, with help from assistants, in early February and guessed it would take around 280 hours to complete, thus the exhibit's title.
The artist told the Daily News, "People think it's paint, but when they come closer they're joyfully surprised. It's kind of fun." And the museum's curator noted that while "It's the most mundane office or school supply...masking tape can really transform a space and the way you experience it. It's rather magical." Just look at this headboard made from electrical tape!
The installation officially opens on March 27th, and will be running through July 5th—at which point the tape will be taken down, rolled in to balls, and tossed in the trash.
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Tedium without any payoff.
Even she's bored with it so she's listening to her iPod
I think it's really nice.
You can find tedium at MOMA. There was a painting done in which the "artist" used nothing but paint and her eyelashes.
Installation art blows. I hope her next piece includes her ex-boyfriend's footprints.
ooooh, watch out Tara Donovan!
Poster boy is art but the merits of museum condoned masking tape are debatable? For shame.
This is pretty nice actually. You guys are too harsh.
Shows that you can do a lot with a little. Not a bad example of what to do when things get tight. I think it looks great.