Art Gallery Of Ontario
13. Blackboard Tableau #1
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:01:48
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Nancy Lim: In the 2000s, Celmins returned to making objects, including this set of blackboards. There are three found tablets, and seven made tablets. Gary Garrels: I find them entrancing because you really slow down and try to determine which one is the original, the found object, and which one is the one that's been created. And I must say, I still find it extremely difficult to figure out which one is which. Vija Celmins: I had moved my studio out in the country and I was beginning to see some old stuff in used junk stores, and kind of waking up to it. Many of the blackboards seemed to be about a hundred years old. And they had all these scratches and all this kind of, what I would say romantic atmosphere to it, which I would not allow myself to do in my own work, but which I could mimic now in doing the blackboards. So I went on a little blackboard craze. I must have done about twenty. Gary Garrels: Blackboards are a way that we bring something into our memory—that, you know, by writing something on