Taconic Mouth
mixed media: aluminum, tinted polyester resin, concrete cores with inclusions of Manhattan bedrock, tempered glass, artificial moss
1993
94.5 x 24 x 24 inches / 240 x 61 x 61 cm
Duchampian wit reappears in Taconic Mouth, from 1993. The name of this work makes reference to New York bedrock, which reappears here in a set of upright cores that emerge as broken teeth from a mouth like aluminum vat filled with reflective clear resin and faux pond scum. Again the mind shifts between natural and industrial scenarios, seeing the sculpture as a mouth or as a landscape filled with half-collapsed remnants of old piers.
Collection of the artist
Bibliography:
Michel Gerard by Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College (1995): p. 18-19
Public Art: Realized and Unrealized, Models, Drawings, and Photographs, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University (2002)
Michel Gérard: Signature Transformations 2009–1972, Christian Pirot (2009): p. 35
Michel Gérard, The American Decade: 1989-1999, Neuberger Museum of Art (2002) with texts by Heartney, Gedeon, and Danto: p. 23
Exhibition history:
1997 Natural Selection curated by Dominique Nahas, Z Gallery, New York