Untitled, 2025
Acrylic paint, dimensions variable
Oscar Mooney, Max Thorner, Jake Shore
Untitled, 2025
Baguettes, dimensions variable
Untitled, 2025
Baguettes, dimensions variable
Mooney/Thorner/Shore
11/10/2025-25/10/2025
Oscar Mooney, Max Thorner, Jake Shore
The baguette is a type of French bread. Baguette translates to "stick" in English. Baguettes Chinois are what French people call "chopsticks". Long, narrow loaves of bread had been common throughout France beginning in the 18th century but not until the increased usage of Hungarian high milled flour in the beginning of the 19th century and the introduction of the Viennese steam oven by Adolf Zang in 1839 did these narrow loaves take on the qualities of the modern baguette, and not until 1920 did they officially take on the name "baguette". The average baguette is twenty six inches long. In 1986, Francois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac liberalized the price of food products in France, removing the sixty year state regulated maximum price for baguettes.
There are different things an exhibition text can do. One thing the text can do is directly provide meaning for the work. This can be done through communicating a personal, cultural, or historical context for the work to fit into. Another thing the text can do is explain how the work got to be that way. This can be done through communicating the material and or social/historical processes that led to the formation of the work.
The stone is an English or Imperial British unit of mass. The stone is used in the United Kingdom and Ireland to refer to body weight, most commonly within boxing, wrestling, and horse racing. "Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small" (Deuteronomy 25:13). Before The Weights and Measures Act of 1835, a stone of glass weighed five pounds, a stone of meat eight pounds, and a stone of wool or "horseman's weight" , fourteen pounds. There are different types of stones. The three types of stones are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Uluru is a famous stone in Australia. Australia is a former British colony. The United States is a former British colony. Algeria is a former French colony. Algeria consumes forty nine million baguettes a year. France consumes only thirty million baguettes a year.
A third thing the text can do is suggest possible relationships between the work and things in the world. This can be done by communicating information. Sometimes doing the third thing can go wrong; it might seem that the writer is trying to inflate the perceived importance or conceptual rigor of the work while still remaining an oblique figure. There are more things an exhibition text can do than these three things.
Free trade is when people have the ability to produce and exchange goods as they please. Free trade is an ideal. An ideal satisfies the conception of what is perfect in regards to its own aims. Ideals have trouble being in the world. There are many reasons that make it hard for free trade to be in the world. One reason that free trade is not in the world is sanctions. Another reason that free trade is not in the world is tariffs. There are other reasons besides these two that free trade is not in the world. Free trade would definitely require universal or exchangeable systems of measurement. Free trade would also require the ability to count.