| Tom Sachs: Lamps Bitch Lounge & Quarter Screws January - February 2001 Over the past six years, Tom Sachs has made lamps, cobbled together from the world's detritus-a phone book, a sheet metall sign, a street barrier--reclaimed and joined to unlike parts. The eccentric forms that Sachs assembled become a lamps only by virtue of a light bulb and electrical plug attached, lamps then at the most basic definition.  Each of the seven different pieces is very much a unique object. Most are table lamps; one hangs suspended from a vise grip. All will be installed at A/D from January 6th through the month of February.Sachs also had in his studio a small cardboard box, neatly labeled "quarter screws." Inside were seventy-four quarters, each with the last inch of a Phillips head drill bit soldered to the rim. They are portable screw drivers, but also quintessential Sachs objects. A hole is punched through each coin, so that you can carry it on your keychain, or on a string around your neck. Each face has been stamped "TS." |
