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WALL DRAWING # 6/7/8 
THE DRAKE HOTEL
UNTIL 2025
TORONTO


The Drake Hotel commissioned the artist, Sean Weisgerber, to install 3 new wall drawings in our classic wing, offering transparency into the unique financial negotiations between artist and patron. For Wall Drawings #6 and #7, he drew a 1x1 inch grid of pencil dots over the entire wall and then placed price stickers in each square inch. The cumulative value of all of these price stickers represents the artist's fee. In Wall Drawing #8, the artist bartered for an alternative form of payment - a strategy akin to Ed Kienholz's Barter series from the late 1960s - to create his latest wall drawing using stickers that document this specific form of exchange.

Curated by: Ash Mulvihill


WALL DRAWING #6


A 1X1 INCH GRID OF DOTS DRAWN OVER THE ENTIRE WALL USING A 2H PENCIL STARTING FROM THE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL MIDPOINTS OF THE WALL. AT THE TOP HORIZONTAL MIDPOINT OF THE WALL, 3 WHITE PRICE STICKERS PLACED CENTRALLY IN EACH SECTION OF THE GRID, REPEATED AT 3-INCHES INTERVALS HORIZONTALLY AND REPEATED IN EACH ROW VERTICALLY. BLUE PRICE STICKERS PLACED IN EACH REMAINING SECTION OF THE GRID FROM LEFT TO RIGHT AND TOP TO BOTTOM. EACH PRICE STICKER MARKED WITH THE DATE IT WAS CREATED AND THE PRICE OF THE LABOUR USED TO EXECUTE THE WALL DRAWING.

2H PENCIL & WHITE AND BLUE (PMS 277) PRICE STICKERS

DRAWN BY: SEAN WEISGERBER

ASSISTED BY: JAMES "FISH" FISHER

TOTAL NUMBER OF PRICE STICKERS: 7,822



WALL DRAWING #7


A 1X1 INCH GRID OF DOTS DRAWN OVER THE ENTIRE WALL USING A 2H PENCIL STARTING FROM THE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL MIDPOINTS OF THE WALL. FROM THE TOP ROW OF THE WALL, 24 COLOURS OF PRICE STICKERS PLACED FROM DARKEST TO LIGHTEST COLOUR VERTICALLY IN EACH SECTION OF THE GRID, ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN:

0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000...
0001-0001-0001-0001-0001-0001...
1010-1010-1010-1010-1010-1010...
0101-0101-0101-0101-0101-0101...
1110-1110-1110-1110-1110-1110...
1111-1111-1111-1111-1111-1111...

0 = DARKER COLOUR
1 = LIGHTER COLOUR

EACH PRICE STICKER MARKED WITH THE PRICE OF THE LABOUR USED TO EXECUTE THE WALL DRAWING.

2H PENCIL & 24 COLOURS OF PRICE STICKERS

DRAWN BY: SEAN WEISGERBER

ASSISTED BY: JAMES "FISH" FISHER

TOTAL NUMBER OF PRICE STICKERS: 23,438



WALL DRAWING #8


ARTIST AND PATRON BARTER FOR SOMETHING IN EXCHANGE FOR THE LABOUR USED TO EXECUTE THE WALL DRAWING. EACH STICKER MARKED WITH THE TERMS OF THIS EXCHANGE IN THE STYLE OF AN EDWARD KIENHOLZ "BARTER SERIES" WORK ON PAPER. THE ARTIST PLACES STICKERS ON THE WALL AT RANDOM UNTIL THEY DETERMINE THE BARTER TERMS HAVE BEEN FULFILLED.

STICKERS

PATRON: THE DRAKE HOTEL

ARTIST: SEAN WEISGERBER