Spring 2008
Artist Project / Wear Them All
Made in the shades
San Keller
The Swiss artist San Keller’s low-key conceptual interventions often deploy humor to deflate the self- regard of various art world institutions, tropes, and characters, including himself. For his work Wear Them All, Keller was photographed trying on every style of sunglasses available for purchase from the Ottica Aventino opticians in Rome, producing a kind of serialized typology of self-deprecation out of an awkward everyday experience.
All photos Schnittholz.
San Keller is a Zurich-based artist who works in various media. He is working on a museum that will open in May 2008. For more information, see www.museumsankeller.ch.
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