Rirkrit Tiravanija | What’s on LA
Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2023 (no more reality (for pp), the news sun, august 16, 2020), 2023, paint on newspaper mounted on linen, 24 x 22 inches, 61 x 55.9 cm.
By Jody Zellen
Rirkrit Tiravanija is an artist whose work has employed unusual and diverse mediums: cooking, staged readings and platforms for socializing. The forms and formats of his installations and presentations are participatory and unconventional, often involving the sharing of meals. That is not to say that Tiravanija does not also make objects and drawings that can hang on a wall or fill a conventional gallery space. In 2020, he covered the walls of The Drawing Center in New York with over 200 demonstration drawings — black and white works on paper derived from photographs of demonstrations published in the International Herald Tribune. World events and the propagation of news has long been an interest of his and for this installation, No More Reality (For PP), he covers the gallery walls with pages of daily American newspapers (collected in 2020).