Giant Snoozing in a Trash Habitat
March 9th 2009 13:21
The Bed - The Big Sleep
Will Ryman
Charles Saatchi's King's Road art gallery, UK
The Bed began as a personal play with scale. I remember as a child coming into my parents' bedroom and having the impression of their bed being much bigger than it actually was.
Here, it's a metaphor for a similar ongoing feeling, which everyone carries throughout their life, trying to figure how you feel and who you are and what your place is in relation to things that surround you.
Will Ryman
Spanning over 8 metres, Will Ryman's The Bed is both a monumental sculpture and a stage, all made from papier mâché. On view from Jan 13, 2009 in the Saatchi Gallery's Project Room, Ryman's giant man reclines in a dreamy world, somewhere between Sunday morning lie-in bliss and nervous breakdown, basking in the clutter of indulgence.
An eye-catching giant papier-mache man lies dozing among a litter of empty beer cans, notebooks and half-eaten crisp packets.
New York-based playwright-turned sculptor Ryman, 39, is the son of acclaimed American minimalist painter Robert Ryman.
This is the first time that Ryman's work is being exhibited in the UK.
Will Ryman
Charles Saatchi's King's Road art gallery, UK
The Bed began as a personal play with scale. I remember as a child coming into my parents' bedroom and having the impression of their bed being much bigger than it actually was.
Here, it's a metaphor for a similar ongoing feeling, which everyone carries throughout their life, trying to figure how you feel and who you are and what your place is in relation to things that surround you.
Will Ryman
Spanning over 8 metres, Will Ryman's The Bed is both a monumental sculpture and a stage, all made from papier mâché. On view from Jan 13, 2009 in the Saatchi Gallery's Project Room, Ryman's giant man reclines in a dreamy world, somewhere between Sunday morning lie-in bliss and nervous breakdown, basking in the clutter of indulgence.
An eye-catching giant papier-mache man lies dozing among a litter of empty beer cans, notebooks and half-eaten crisp packets.
New York-based playwright-turned sculptor Ryman, 39, is the son of acclaimed American minimalist painter Robert Ryman.
This is the first time that Ryman's work is being exhibited in the UK.
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when i first saw it i wondered if someone (perhaps the real estate) had snuck into my old apartment when i was sleeping and taken a few candid snaps of my environment! haha
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its cool hey!
giant stuff . . . im easily entertained!
Comment by anonymous
i love that. i always thought if the first house we lived in when we came to australia as been absolutely massive. we moved out of there when i was five and upon revisiting years later i was surprised to see that it was actually just an average sized three bedroom terrace in the inner city. i couldn't believe it was the same house. life is different when you are a child.
-Ruby from a generic computer in an internet cafe.
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(how cute, anonymous generic Ruby haha)
yeah ive been back to a couple of my childhood homes and my first thought was "wow, its so much smaller than i remember"
like the amount of paces to walk from one end of the room or yard seems only half as many . . . i guess our legs are longer!
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oh i know, doesnt the big bed look just dreamy!
you could loll around on there for weeks!
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awww im sure yours have sprouted at least a couple of cms since you were a little tacker!
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big funnies!
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You love it.
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i dont think you need any assistance looking like a midget
but youre right, i do love it!
if you wore green you could be an elf!