B. Wurtz: Kitchen Trees from Public Art Fund on Vimeo.
“I don’t have to try to tack on meaning later – it’s already built in. So I get to just work on the formal stuff. And that to me is the real fun of making art.” —B. Wurtz
Courtesy of the Public Art Fund, B. Wurtz’s delightful Kitchen Trees installation is on view in City Hall Park in New York until December 7, 2018. For nearly fifty years, Wurtz has used found objects to create idiosyncratic assemblages related to basic human needs – food, clothing, or shelter. The sculptures for Kitchen Trees are made from everyday items found in the kitchen. In this video, Wurtz talks about the delight he finds in how found objects allow him to eschew meaning, because the objects come already embedded with all their potential.
Video by SandenWolff Productions.