{"id":5953,"date":"2002-01-01T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2001-12-31T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2019-05-28T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T18:24:08","slug":"life-after-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=5953&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Life After John"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sculpture, 2002.<\/strong>
50 x 70 x 120 cm. 
Coffee table basse, book, various objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Life After John. 2019. Sculpture. Table, livre & objets divers . 50 x 70 x 120 cm. 2002. \u00a9 ADAGP, Paris \/ David Michael Clarke.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I made this work after having lived in France for only a couple of years. I was writing a fair bit at the time, both as an artist and as a commentator. I was also trying to get a handle on the local lingo. To help me in my endeavours, I picked up a translated copy of \u00ab Art in Theory \u00bb. It made me think back to a conversation I had a few years back with Martin Boyce. He had just finished the MFA at Glasgow School of Art and I was just about to start it. There wasn’t an enormous list of equipment that students needed to buy, but each student was supposed to acquire a copy of \u00ab Art in Theory \u00bb in order to follow John Calcutt’s seminar program. Always looking for a bargain, I asked Martin if he still had his copy. His sardonic reply, \u00ab Yes, but I’m using it to prop up a wobbly table \u00bb. So I made this sculpture. I bought the coffee table from IKEA, cut six and a half centimetres off one leg and shoved John\u2019s favorite anthology underneath in order to re-establish the balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t