aka
"the new sculptural identity."
Mr. McCracken writes that his work draws on major architectural monuments of the past, ''but it has nothing to do with the past itself. It is a matter of finding those particular forms which seem expressive of a kind of very high level of human consciousness."
"What the work of art looks like isn't too important.
It has to look like something, if it has physical form.
No matter what form it may finally have, it must begin with an idea."
-Sol LeWitt, 1967
It has to look like something, if it has physical form.
No matter what form it may finally have, it must begin with an idea."
-Sol LeWitt, 1967
on anti-environments:
"What I mean is any given place has a preexisting character and identity and when you intervene with a form, that form necessarily changes the character and description of the space and place giving it a new sculptural identity. Often this new identity is considered to be anti-environmental because it alters and changes the existing condition, whether it is urban, architectural or a landscape. It changes how one relates to those spaces and places both perceptually and conceptually.
People become annoyed because they feel that they have a proprietary right over their environment. When it's altered by an interjection that is utilitarian, people don't mind. If you give them a nonworking fountain or a signboard or an advertisement, it is totally acceptable, but if it's a work of art, which is by definition useless, then they protest. I have never completely understood the logic of the protest. Calvinist logic of utilitarian purposefulness continues to be the subtext of most people's reluctance to deal with art in public places."
- Richard Serra
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People become annoyed because they feel that they have a proprietary right over their environment. When it's altered by an interjection that is utilitarian, people don't mind. If you give them a nonworking fountain or a signboard or an advertisement, it is totally acceptable, but if it's a work of art, which is by definition useless, then they protest. I have never completely understood the logic of the protest. Calvinist logic of utilitarian purposefulness continues to be the subtext of most people's reluctance to deal with art in public places."
- Richard Serra
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probable architecture pt 1.
aka
"the new sculptural identity."
images:
1. john mccracken, 1965
2. sol lewitt, 1996, (via 16miles!)
cinder blocks, and concrete
3. sterling ruby
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