Location: General Foods, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Artist: Jonathan Borofsky

Man With Briefcase was completed for the General Mills Corporation (Minneapolis) sculpture garden in 1987. The figure (Man With Briefcase) was cut out of a 30 foot tall (2 inch thick) piece of corten steel. Like the Hammering Man, the Briefcase Man image, which I have used many times, refers to the worker in most of us. In an early installation at the Boymans Museum in Rotterdam, we created a 100 foot long plexiglass painting of this image, which was hung in the skylight of one large gallery while the other room had five Hammering Men "hammering" away. I called this exhibition "Workers".

Actually, this cut-out Man With Briefcase sculpture in Minneapolis refers back to early conceptual work of mine (1966-68) when I made many drawings and models referring to specific negative spaces surrounding objects and numbers.