Man With Briefcase (Click Photo For Enlargement)

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Location: General Foods, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Height: 30 Feet

Man With Briefcase was completed for the General Mills Corporation (Minneapolis) sculpture garden in 1987. The figure (Man With Briefcase) was cut out of a 30 foot tall (2 inch thick) piece of corten steel. Like the Hammering Man, the Briefcase Man image, which I have used many times, refers to the worker in most of us. In an early installation at the Boymans Museum in Rotterdam, we created a 100 foot long plexiglass painting of this image, which was hung in the skylight of one large gallery while the other room had five Hammering Men "hammering" away. I called this exhibition "Workers".

Actually, this cut-out Man With Briefcase sculpture in Minneapolis refers back to early conceptual work of mine (1966-68) when I made many drawings and models referring to specific negative spaces surrounding objects and numbers.

Early Installation References (Click Photo For Enlargement)

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Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1982

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Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1982

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Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1982

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LA Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1986

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London, England, 1981

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London, England, 1981

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Individual Work, Aluminum Sculpture Multiple Gemini Gel Edition, 1982

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Zeitgeist, Berlin, Germany, 1982

 

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