<p>Laced with dry wit and humor, the Sweepers Clock is arguably the most labor-intensive of Dutch designer Maarten Baas’s 2009 series of timepieces. As the name suggests, the clock features two people with brooms pushing lines of debris in real time to form minute and hour hands. This work draws our attention to how the perception of time is dictated by regularly occurring activities, as well as to the fruitlessness of hard labor.</p>
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- Year
- 2010
- Dimensions
- N/A
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Maarten Baas
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Maarten Baas is a Dutch artist working across furniture design, installation, and video who combines craftsmanship with conceptual inquiry into time, labor, and material transformation. His practice frequently subverts the boundary between fine art and design through interventions that expose processes of making and unmaking, often employing fire, erosion, or manual reconstruction as central gestures.
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- Maarten Baas
- Year
- 2010
- Dimensions
- N/A
- Watts ID
- WW-2010-052725
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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