Ornamento y Ley (Arte de armario) (Ornament and Law [Wardrobe Art])

Juan Luis Moraza

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 1960

Series:

Arte de armario (Wardrobe Art)
Date:

1994
Material:

Acrylic silk satin
Technique:

Silk screen print
Descriptive technique:

A work made up of two silk screen printed and folded sheets
Dimensions:

5 x 45,5 x 33 cm
Category:

Sculpture, Decorative arts, Textiles
Entry date:

2011
Register number:

AD06336

A series of sculptures made up of different objects and references to daily life, in this case satin sheets bearing a printed Spanish Workers’ Statute. These legal principles take on a decorative, ornamental role, while the title, Ornament and Law, alludes to Adolf Loos’s famous article “Ornament and Crime”, in which the architect traces the evolution of modern architecture through a critique of decorative arts.