Art Imitating Art

This is Ed.

Henry and I did a video awhile ago on Ed...Here..

Ed is one of the premier framers of art in the US.  The highest of the high modern art.  Some of his clients buy houses..big houses... not to live in them but to only house their art collections.  They have the art hung and have their people watch over it.  Maybe a party is thrown every now and then in the house.

So Ed's latched onto an idea, where feasible, that he builds a frame that goes over the art piece, I photograph the real art piece, we have that printed and then that print goes onto Ed's oversized frame.

The art is somewhat protected from the degradation of light and whatnot but it can still be seen in facsimile.

Today I was in a very nondescript warehouse in the Bay View doing just that.  Shooting Art to imitate the art but hide the art.

Ed, pulling out the pieces.

Ed, handling the pieces.....no, I do not handle the pieces.

He flips them over to show me the history of who framed, reframed, repaired, restored, etc each one. This one was at both the Guggenheim and the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice for some exhibits at a couple times in it's existence so far.