Willie Cole
Steaming Hot 1999
Steam iron and feathers
Approximately 10x4.5x12 in / 25.5x11.5x31 cm; plexiglas case 14x14x14 in / 36x36x36 cm
Edition of 25
$2,500
Published by Artists Space in 1999 to benifit the organization's endowment fund.

A common household steam iron is both palette and brush to Willie Cole, who first exhibited at Artists Space in 1989. In Steaming Hot, Cole reexamins surrealist Man Ray's iconic Cadeau (Gift), replacing his flatiron and nails with a modern steam iron and soft white feathers. the resulting cadeau is the antithesis of its muse, and an almost tribal metaphor for both physical and spiritual cleansing.

Photo: Bill Orcutt

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