Place the chosen tautology. Opus 48. - Papierkleber mit maschinengeschriebenem Text auf starkem Karton, rückseitig mit Stempeldruck "Present".

(ca. 1970) 20 x 15 cm.

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Fondazione Bonotto FX1364. - Eric Andersen’s pieces are so involved with the simple concept that it is sometimes impossible to discover if a piece is taking place at all. He not only takes blank structures to their logical extreme, but minimal art as well, which results in his establishing interesting new orders of boredom. For example, there is the following piece: Opus 48: which turns anonymous when the instruction is followed out It comes through the mail with a piece of cardboard that reads: place the chosen tautology So one chooses a tautology and hides it and has a secret. Only the sender and those he tells know what became of it, so it really does become both anonymous and private, making the title observation true. The public performance of a piece like this is unnecessary, however, by its nature. Still, the act is somehow boring and, through this, interesting. But we have now reached the point where performance art merges into nonperformance art, which brings us to the visual arts, among other things. (Larry Austin + Douglas Kahn, Source, Berkeley 2011).