The Artist Project: Vito Acconci

Artist Vito Acconci reflects on Gerrit Rietveld's Zig Zag Stoel in this episode of The Artist Project.

September 16, 2015

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"It's almost like a chair pretending to be a person."

Artist Vito Acconci reflects on Gerrit Rietveld's "Zig Zag Stoel" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Vito Acconci (1940–2017) is an American multi-media artist and architect known for body-works, performance-pieces, films and videos, installations and architecture.

Installation in Graz, Austria by Vitto Acconci titled MUR ISLAND, made of steel, glass, rubber, asphalt, water, light; 1,052 square meters.

Vito Acconci (American, 1940–2017)

MUR ISLAND, 2004

Acconci Studio (Vito Acconci, Dario Nunez, Stephen Roe, Peter Dorsey, Thomas Siegl, Gia Wolff, Sergio Prego). MUR ISLAND, Graz, Austria, 2004. Steel, glass, rubber, asphalt, water, light; 1,052 square meters. © Acconci Studio