El elogio de la locura (The Praise of Folly)
1988
Clay, iron and glass
The two towers are made of the same material as those in Untitled. The concept of the work also has to do with the idea of instability. The one metre square pieces of glass are supported by the same point where the terminals in Untitled made contact. The names Nietzsche and Hoelderlin are written on the wall and cut in half by the glass, so that if you look from below you see the lower part of the word reflected, and if you look from above you see the upper part reflected. The image of the word is also a mixture of both parts, the reflected and the seen part, and it makes the text somewhat difficult to read. There was also a drawing in the picture that usually accompanied the installation. It was shown in two exhibitions organised by the Instituto de la Juventud, one in Madrid, at the now defunct Museum of Contemporary Art, and then at the Konstructioner, Udstillingsbygningen, Copenhagen (Denmark). The drawing was photographed in the artist's studio.
