Shelf print: Afterlife of the Mind Game no.1 by Madelon Vriesendorp
Produced exclusively for the exhibition Madelon Vriesendorp: Mind Games at Sir John Soane's Museum, this high quality print features Vriesendorp's drawing Afterlife of the Mind Game no. 1 in pencil and coloured pencil. Vriesendorp's celebrated Mind Game, the largescale 3D version of which is on display in the Museum, is an interactive and deeply playful piece - part board game, part psychoanalytic diagnostic tool - in which observers are invited to engage with a series of familiar yet mysterious elements in order to prompt self-enquiry and revelation. Each element or figure is ascribed with a particular set of characteristics: the dog is "both guide and guard", the bird is "both nomad and nester", the foot is "both progress and impermanence" and so on. Recognised as one of the most significant forces in modern architecture through her work with Dutch studio OMA (which she co-founded with architect Rem Koolhaas in the 1970s) and the most recent recipient of the Soane Medal, artist, artist and collector Madelon Vriesendorp is something of a cult figure. Her uniquely surreal and subversive perspective has proved profoundly influential over five decades of active engagement with the worlds of art and architecture; of her work Vriesendorp simply says, "I make things that make me laugh." © Madelon Vriesendorp. Printed on card. 21 x 14.5cm. Made in the UK.