Gareth James
The Screw. Being so designed, moves its way spatially on the basis of an optical illusion. Like the Barber's Shop pole, where a circumferential movement, if perfectly steady, looks nothing like an impotent spinning around its axis (such as it is)
2005
Not on view
Date
2005
Classification
Installations
Medium
Plexiglass, two-way mirror plexiglass, paper, turntables, bubble wrap
Dimensions
Overall: 48 × 36 × 24in. (121.9 × 91.4 × 61 cm)
Accession number
P.2011.198
Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate