The French object artist Ange Leccia was responsible for some excitement at last year’s Documenta in Kassel. In the Orangerie he showed a brand new Mercedes on a revolving pedestal. The deep blue color of the car was identical with that of the pedestal, which functioned as a kind of barrier to the object itself. The object of seduction—also the title of the work—could not be touched. Leccia calls his works “arrangements.” He avoids the use of the term “installation” because it seems to him to be too physical. Behind this concept of arrangement, there is a respect for the object itself. These