Comments on: Bicycle chain on radiator (2009)

By: Tepidus

Tepidus — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:37:16 +0000

Please start a conceptual art blog. Please.

By: Mark Bennet

Mark Bennet — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:25:00 +0000

The natural focus of this piece is on the chain. But notice how the study of the radiator, with its authentically chipped paintwork and staining is itself a masterpiece of domestic observation. The chain is merely unusual, the radiator a work of genius.

By: TimT

TimT — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:55:04 +0000

Another profound question might be asked as well – what has happened to the rest of the bike?

By: David Keen

David Keen — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:08:44 +0000

The chain has three separate ends, and yet is one chain. It is at the beginning of the radiator, or perhaps at its end. Or both. We only see in part -some of the chain is behind the radiator, but we don’t know how much.

But the most important question, has it signed the Jerusalem Declaration? If not, I want nothing more to do with it.

By: dennisthemennis

dennisthemennis — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:41:55 +0000

It is alas the missing links scholars have been searching for its probably because they were inCOGnito, however they do radiate a kind of chain reaction when it comes to their real purpose.

By: Chris Clark

Chris Clark — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:59:14 +0000

And can it be ….my chains fell off..

.I felt my heart strangely warmed…

Dave have you become a Methodist?

By: Youthblog

Youthblog — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:31:00 +0000

I clicked on the links but they don’t work

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:32:15 +0000

And all I thought was “It must be a very worn chain to be twisted sideways so much.” Did I miss something?

By: Russ

Russ — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:59:24 +0000

Interesting. To me it’s a prophetic statement on the centrality of the bicycle in combatting global warming. The inherent idea that naturally generated power (eg our legs using a chain to power a bike) is the best complement to the created order, rather than smog-belching industrial stuff that wrecks the environment.

Or something.

By: TimT

TimT — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:44:35 +0000

The composition is astounding: slyly, almost seductively, the bicycle chain drapes itself over the radiator, tempting us. It’s face (if it had a face) seems to tease us, it’s eyes (if it had eyes) seem to beckon us, it’s lips (if it had lips) seem to open in a pout. The radiator, meantime, is stoic, a symbol of radiatorness and immovability. It is, finally, fundamentally, *there*.

This work can also be read as an allegory on the middle east.