welded and painted steel, aluminum, vinyl signage
24” x 24” x 1.5”
welded and painted steel, aluminum, vinyl signage
24” x 1.5”
welded and painted steel, aluminum, vinyl signage
48” x 30” x 2”
16” x 13” x 2”
welded and painted steel, aluminum, vinyl signage
18” diameter x 2”
welded and painted steel, aluminum, vinyl signage
The Vanishing Wilderness
David Schafer and John Schlesinger
1989
Van Rooy Gallery
Amsterdam, NL
Excerpt from the exhibition catalog:
In David Schafer’s new series of wall reliefs, the public arena erupts in the private space of the gallery. These are places where physical space is shared, where the public self is displayed (club, café, lounge) or where the private self is analyzed (clinic, asylum). The equivalence of these spaces in the wall reliefs suggests that the public and the private are not independent terms, but interdependent. As two binary forms in opposition, they are inalterably connected, each defined by its opposite.
Deborah Bershad
1989