8.0cube
Installation
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
March 2012
8,000 carton cubes + text
8.0cube is an installation exhibited in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as part of the opening festivities for the 2012 art season. The installation comprised 8,000 numbered cubes, all measuring 10x10x10cm, producing a work with a total volume of 8[m3]. Each cube had a word printed on it from the medieval poetry of Sha’al Iben Qadam. The installation referred to the measurement: 8 cubic meters, which was
in the museum official call for artists to challenge and contemplate the meanings accompanying the evaluation of works of art according to volume.
The 8[m3] measurement was divided into thousands of tiny cubes written with text,poetic text. Both volume and text were broken down, shuffled and re-arranged in a new order to meet the Tel Aviv Museum’s requirement for a work of art which can fit in an 8 cubic meter space. Placed within a museum they were laden with a new
meaning. Viewers were invited to purchase one cube out of the 8,000 original works of art. Each one was numbered as one of 8,000, bearing one word from the text, from the museum.
The work invites viewers to address the iconic status of the work of art exhibited in the museum space and to contemplate the museum’s capacity to load a volume of 8 cubic meters with artistic value for 24 hours.
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8.0cube installation. |
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8.0cube – top view. |
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Choose yourr cube. |
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0.25 cube out of 8.0cube.
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It says : “joy on your doughter mind” Man and cube.
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8.0cube installation. 8.0cube installation.
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