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thetics behind and looking at the idea — that’s what is interesting to me, that’s what starts any work. The idea is what is significant and the objects themselves worthless — they have no value, the idea is what is important. Objects are not important, people attach too much significance to objects. I’m interested in the thought behind the finished piece.”
Some works, such as “Blindly Striking Out,” do not even exist afterward as a work but are almost entirely the concept itself, a kind of mix between performance art and conceptual art. A person, dressed in a business suit, frantically waves a cane while a paper bag covers his (or her) head. Kirchner then takes a photo of this to preserve the memory of the idea but to experience the work you’d have to be there when it happened.
In another work, “Endless Thought Column,” he has taken hundreds of paperback books and created a sculpturelike object which twists its way from floor to ceiling. He said he did one once that was 26 feet tall for a show. The books represent the idea of one story after another, told in one book after another, on and on.
Kirchner says, “I guess I’m sort of cynical about all this. “ But his pieces are humorous as well as thought provoking.
“There is a big misconception that people (artists) are trying to do something for shock value,” he said. “That’s not true. There is a lot of thought and a whole history behind it (conceptual art). People are following it closely.”
His work has been shown from New York to Sweden, but
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