The Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art, the world's largest
collection of images of art museum toilets taken at various art museums around
the world, is proud to announce its first special exhibition: The John Michael
Kohler Arts Center Washrooms. The exhibition showcases John Michael Kohler Arts
Center’s unique washrooms, which epitomize the achievements of Arts/Industry,
the decades-long collaboration between art and industry conceived by Director
Ruth
Kohler.
Started in 1974 as a means of supporting artistic exploration by providing
artists with access to industrial technologies, Arts/Industry gives artists
from around the world the opportunity to create new bodies of work using the
facilities, technologies, and materials of the nation's leading plumbingware
manufacturer, Kohler Co.
The exhibition includes images from six washrooms from the following artists:
- The Women's Room: By Cynthia Consentino
- The Social History of Architecture: By Matt Nolen
- Childhood Vitreous: By Casey O'Connor
- Sheboygan Men's Room: By Ann Agee (shown)
- Tell Me Something I Don't Already Know: By Carter
Kustera
- Emptying and Filling: By Merrill Mason
"These washrooms are permanently installed works of art
and now the whole world has the opportunity to enjoy them," said
R.M. Schlemielle,
director of The Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art. "They serve to uphold the
Arts Center's philosophy that art can enliven, enrich, and inform every facet
of our everyday lives and we are proud to offer a platform so that even more
people can enjoy these works of art."
The museum's collection currently houses exclusive images ranging from the
prestigious marble lavatory at the Metropolitan Museum of New York,
behind-closed-doors shots of the Hermitage's latrines and the decaying (yet
still flushing) pictures of the Mongolian Art Museum's commodes. Since its
inception, staff members have tirelessly been collecting images from around the
world and it is now believed by experts to be the world's largest collection to
showcase the forgotten art that can be found in every museum.
For more information, visit
www.artmuseumtoilet.org.
Source:
The Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art
