Can you describe how Gordon Matta Clarke's work "resonates in projects
like THE THING. "?
And perhaps briefly introduce THE THING for newcomers to the list,
Ele
On 8 Apr 2006, at 22:00, Murphy wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2006, at 7:32 AM, Ele Carpenter wrote:
>
>> In this way it is possible that Felix Gonzalez-Torres' work will be
>> instrumentalised as an example of US Freedom in the same way that
>> Condaleezza Rice expressed her happiness that people in Blackburn,
>> UK were protesting against her (something I read in the news not in a
>> gallery). Perhaps it will be another 15 years before the American
>> Pavilion at Venice presents a coherent proposal by the Yes Men to
>> close down the WTO, and another 30 years before someone finds a way
>> of deconstructing the instrumentalisation of art to represent the
>> idea of a nation state.
>>
>
> My problem with choosing Felix Gonzalas-Torres to represent the US in
> Venice is that I considered him a designer, not an artist and I still
> do. At most he was Gordon Matta-Clark lite. Matta-Clark was, in my
> opinion, the most important US artist in the twentieth century because
> the work he did still resonates in projects like THE THING. Felix's
> work resonates in the pocketbook of his dealer, Andrea Rosen.
>
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> Robbin Murphy
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