1998-2003 > Take it Easy

photograph mounted on aluminum plates, painted bronze tongue
1999-2000
40 x 30 x 9 inches / 102 x 76 x 23 centimeters

Take it Easy
photograph mounted on aluminum plates, painted bronze tongue
2000
Take it Easy, detail
photograph mounted on aluminum plates, painted bronze tongue
2000

In Take it Easy, from 1999, Gérard slyly mocks his own preoccupations. Here a photograph of the shadowy back of Gérard's own head overlays an aluminum plate. Protruding from it is a bright red three-dimensional tongue.

Collection of the artist

Press:
"Michel Gerard at the Neuberger Museum" by Janet Koplos, Art in America (Jan. 2003)

Bibliography:
Michel Gérard, The American Decade: 1989-1999, Neuberger Museum of Art (2002) with texts by Heartney, Gedeon, and Danto: p. 25, 58-59
Michel Gérard: Signature Transformations 2009–1972, Christian Pirot (2009): p. 57