Thirty years ago, Gabriel Orozco placed an empty shoe box on a gallery floor – a space to hold ideas within an impersonal space - and called it art. The public kicked it, not knowing it was supposed to be art. The art world was skeptical, but accepted it as art.
Artist's body, blue shirt, silver brooch
Newman said of his zips: “My work, in terms of social impact, suggests the possibility of an open society, of an open world and not of a closed institutional one.” This is what jewelry does. It's not locked away or part of the closed institutions of the art world – but out, open in the world, with all of the freedom and lack of control this entails.
