Leo Koenig Inc. will be closed Thanksgiving weekend The gallery will reopen on November 29th, and Gelitin's structure for Tantamounter 24/7 will be on view until December 3rd

The “Tantamounter 24/7” is a gigantic, complex and very clever machine. It's like a huge huge Xerox copy machine, only bigger and more clever. The friendly customer places their personal objects, ideas, smells on one of the entry ports and after a short analysis will be informed of the time it will take to produce the copy.

The “Tantamounter 24/7” can scan two and three-dimensional objects, analyze their flavours, ideas, concepts and contents. As a clever machine it can not just copy or duplicate objects, but of course be tantamount to them. Due to its complex emotional circuitry one will never know how the “Tantamounter 24/7” will reflect the input. After the announced waiting time the input object and its duplicate will be ejected through the exit slot. The working mechanism behind “Tantamounter 24/7” is some completely hardwired intense individual agents operating day and night under close supervision of a bankrupt psychiatrist.

The “Tantamounter 24/7” is a novelty in an ever changing market and will have its first public test run on November 16th, 10 pm serving its audience 24/7 until November 23rd, 10 pm. The “Tantamounter 24/7” will be totally free of charge (Although it will be happy about food and love donations.) Get down and get your stuff tantamountered at Leo Koenig Inc., 545 W 23rd Street.

Yes, Leo Koenig Inc. will be open 24 hours a day for the entire week of November 16 through November 23rd.

For more information or visuals, please contact Elizabeth Balogh or Nicole Russo at the gallery.