2v0

2005, Edition of 36, Photogavure, signed, dated on face, 17 7/8 x 21 inches; Produced by Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, printed by Niels Borch Jensen, Copenhagen                                                

In 2004 a daguerreotype of the artist’s 1971 sculpture, 2 v 0 (acetone and glass) was made. It was scanned and used to make this photogravure. The sculpture (6 x 2 ½ x 2 ½ inches) when vertical, performs as an unpredictable timepiece, when horizontal as an unmarked level. The artist has referred to its variable nature as Pataphysical. [Alfred Jarry’s Pataphysics is the science of the particular or of laws that govern exceptions. The title is a nonsense mathematical formula.