TRY THIS AT HOME. If you go to the MoMA to see anything right now, you'll have to walk over Jim Lambie's work. You can't avoid it. In the entryway up to the crazy flying fan in the Marron atrium, is a full on, pop color installation by Jim Lambie made out of vinyl tape. Tracking the outlines of the steps up to the next floor, the tape lines both emphasize the architecture and emphasize how much color the MoMA is lacking. Like a Turkish Rug or a Kilim, the color at once warms the space and dissolves into a fuzzy mass...
Jim Lambie is an ex rocker from Glasgow (The Boy Hairdressers and Teenage Fanclub) who found his calling with the visual arts. Or more precisely with his intricate vinyl tape floor installations. Using tape (on sheets), he's been doing these installations in Europe since at least 2003 and was shortlisted for a Turner Prize in 2005.
The cool thing about this is that is it is born of a very simple idea: using tape to cover entire floors. Strong sticking, semi-glossy and durable, vinyl tape makes an instant hit and can be manipulated (with skill) to create a very striking and beautiful floor. MoMA's lobby, walked over by thousands of folks, looked lovely.
At the Tate in 2003
Just as Bri and Chad showed us how to use masking tape to add lines to their walls and Post-It's to create accent walls in Bri & Chad's Fab on a Budget, you can use vinyl tape on your own floor to create a striking design (which is also removable). Lambie seems to use sheets of vinyl tape (see links below), but you can use rolls to cover much smaller sections. It is also important to vary your widths, which you can do by buying wider tape or putting two widths together. I'll let you figure it out.
Below, are a bunch of good links that show not only Lambie's installations, but also a video and stills of his assistants installing (wouldn't it be nice if we all had assistants). This will give you an idea of the method, you can create your own madness.
Best,
>>Jim Lambie @ Wikipedia
>>The Installation going up at MoMA
>>The MoMA exhibit with his ZOBOP!
>>Jim Lambie installing in a YouTube video at the Hirschorn
>>A Lot of Google Images of Jim Lambie's floor installations
Please Note: All of these emails are not sponsored in any way, and I often do not know what I am going to write about until I wake up and walk to work (as if you hadn't noticed).
I've was thinking about doing this on top of my plywood (landlord: let's just paint the subfloor!) floor in my bedroom on the outer edges in the room on the outside of the throw rug. Wondering if the tape would leave residue when taking it off if I had to move out.
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My name is Roberto Scafidi, artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina.I was shocked and amazed when a student in my class
showed me a photograph of the MoMAs floor by this Jim Lambie, its a total rip off my work. Im working in this line since
1993, there are many catalogues and books in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires that can prove what im
saying. You can check some of my work at www.arssummum.net , a art history site from Spain , write my last name in the
" busqueda" case and you could see. Its not "quite like it" its a detail of one of my works, every and each color, the
composition, etc. I cant believe the lack of ethics of this guy,but ... Mark Harden of the Artchive knows my work since
2006, and many other people in the U.S, and Europe.Got some coleector in Paris, Munich, Italy and Spain, besides Latin
America. Please check what Im saying, you will see its true. I´ve been awarded some times, by the French Embassy in
1991´92, lived in Paris in The cité Internationale des Arts. I´m not saying this out of vanity, but to remark that I have
many years working behind me , and many people know my work, and coldnt believe when they saw this plagiarization. I
hope you can spread this news for the truths sake.
My mail is
scafidiroberto@yahoo.com.ar
Thank you very much
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