in online exhibition 55 Years of Schellmann Art
Sigla, Finnegans Wake, 1998
From Wall Works
Warm white neon on a black painted wall; configuration of the neon signs variable. Signs approximately 12 x 12 x 4 cm (5 x 5 x 1½ in); installation size according to the wall. Limited to 12 installations, with a signed and numbered certificate.
The wall work edition Sigla, Finnegans Wake is one of several Joyce-based Kosuth works – others include an immense installation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and permanent installations in Tokyo and Lyon. For Sigla, Kosuth created white neon "text" after the sigla (signs) Joyce used in his seminal 1923 works Finnegans Wake to designate characters and their identities. These luminous signals are to be configured freely on a black wall, suggesting a starry night sky.
