Red Boxing Gloves Orange Kitchen Gloves (1980)

Red Boxing Gloves Orange Kitchen Gloves was shot in 1980 in Polavision an instant movie format that the videocassette made obsolete The work is in the form of a pendant pair a convention that arose in seventeenthcentury Holland The pendant pair consists of two paintings with subjects that are complements of each other In the classic case one painting shows a husband and the other his wife Together the two figures make a larger whole The two pairs of gloves express this same relation in figurative if conventional terms A few years ago I transferred the films to DVDs far simpler to show them in that form than as films