Robert Grosvenor

‘Strangeness in the work of Grosvenor is often, in a sense, afoot, buoyed by humor. Consider the photo of his “clown shoes”. Made of construction paper, sprayed brown, loosely laced, two to three times usual size, topped by a pair of cuffed canvas pants seen from knees down. A figure stands before a car, of which a single tire appears, a Goodyear Wrangler. In a second photo taken on the same spot, the shoes alone. Disembodied, they are no less comical. The artist disappears.’

Bob Nickas, ‘A Block of Water and Models of Various Craft’, in: Robert Grosvenor, Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Karma, New York 2020, p. 66