The Beanery
The Beanery is a life-size, walk-in artwork created in 1965 by the American artist Edward Kienholz; it has been referred to as his greatest work, and "one of the most memorable works of late 20th-century art".[1] It represents the interior of a Los Angeles bar, Barney's Beanery.
Modelled at ⅔ the size of the original Beanery,[2] it features the smells and sounds of the bar, and models of customers, all of whom have clocks for faces with the time set at 10:10. Only the model of Barney, the owner, has a real face. Kienholz is quoted as saying "The entire work symbolizes the switch from real time (symbolized by a newspaper) to the surrealist time inside the bar, where people waste time, kill time, forget time, and ignore time".[2]
First exhibited in the parking lot of the bar in October 1965,[3] it is now in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. It was restored in 2012.[4]
References
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/nov/11/ed-kienholz-hoerengracht-national-gallery
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.cultuurwijs.nl/nwc.stedelijkmuseumamsterdam/cultuurwijs.nl/i000030.html
- ↑ On a Scale that Competes with the World: The Art of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Robert L. Pincus, University of California Press, 1990
- ↑ http://www.kunstbeeld.nl/nl/nieuws/18961/stedelijk-museum-restaureert-the-beanery-van-kienholz.html