Round Wooden Stick (Barre de Bois Rond), 1975
Wood and paint
200 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm
Kirkland Collection, London

Portrait of Gilbert & George, 1974
Wood and paint
Two parts, 122 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm each
Private Collection, London

During the course of the 1970s, it was common to see Cadere walking through the gallery districts of Paris and through other cities carrying one of his Round Wooden Sticks. Merging sculpture and performance, he brought one with him into cafés, subways, stores, and other artists’ exhibitions. Cadere limited his palette to a set of eight colors – black, white, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, and green – and standardised the sequence in which the colours are arranged. Reluctant to let the system become too orthodox, however, Cadere inserted one mistake in each bar’s colour sequence.