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Daniel Spoerri







Daniel Spoerri made 'Hahns Abendmahl Hahn's Supper 1964 Various objects mounted on wooden board.' which is displayed below. I first saw this piece in 'Mumok, Vienna'. It was undoubtedly my favourite piece of the whole gallery and I found myself staring at it for a while just amazed at how something so casual can be strikingly compositional, the evenly placed white plates perfectly divided with forks and plates, and the wine bottles reaching towards the viewer.
In 1960 Spoerri made his first 'snare picture' which was his breakfast. Breakfast is what we are accustomed to seeing horizontally, but Spoerri displays it verticaly causing the eyes to recognise the distortion of a truth we are accustomed to. Something as simple as a table-top becomes a genius masterpiece as soon as it is hung on the wall. Like memories focusing on unusual and overlooked objects, our table-tops are often overlooked and forgotten- and often we have never seen them from a birdseye perspective. So it is this fundamental shift in view and perspective, making the unseen seen and the unexpected which makes Spoerri's works first call to me in Vienna, and it is this which made his concept imbrued in my mind as one of utmost creativity that I can only be inspired by.

