
by Robert Therrien, 1994
Robert Therrien built this oversized table and six chairs in 1994. Everything is scaled to exactly 3.6 times normal size, which puts the tabletop at roughly 10 feet high. Standing underneath it, you feel like a small child in an adult's dining room. The piece is made from wood, metal, and enamel, and it weighs enough that the floor had to be reinforced for installation.
Therrien (1947-2019) was a Los Angeles artist who spent decades making oversized versions of ordinary objects: stacked plates, folding chairs, pots and pans. "Under the Table" was the very first artwork installed at The Broad museum in LA, and alongside Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Room, it's the most popular work in the collection. Visitors walk between the chair legs and look up at magnified structural details normally hidden from view.
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