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New Haven, CT, United States
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Pre-Installation
New Haven, CT, United States
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Built
YEAR
1998
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
This installation was inspired by Robert Irwin. In the sixties, Irwin became critically interested in the human process of vision: for instance, why viewers are conditioned to focus on objects as opposed to the light which reveals them. In a gallery, a vase in a glass case can only be rendered visible by the light shining on it; the light plays a supporting role, yet it is critical in defining the art object.
In a sense, Robert Iwin's art is an inversion of that example. He uses physical materials to frame and direct the viewer's attention to certain ways of seeing, natural and sensory phenomena, or conditions and patterns of (day)light. Irwin questioned the art world's claim that certain objects intentionally set in a room, are isolated and meaningful enough to be designated as art and as such are transcendent of time and place. While Marcel Duchamp declared that any object could be art if so called, Irwin's work suggests that any situation could be art, if so experienced. With this installation, I am demonstrating that art does not reside solely in the material world, but also in the realm of space, time, and experience.
In a sense, Robert Iwin's art is an inversion of that example. He uses physical materials to frame and direct the viewer's attention to certain ways of seeing, natural and sensory phenomena, or conditions and patterns of (day)light. Irwin questioned the art world's claim that certain objects intentionally set in a room, are isolated and meaningful enough to be designated as art and as such are transcendent of time and place. While Marcel Duchamp declared that any object could be art if so called, Irwin's work suggests that any situation could be art, if so experienced. With this installation, I am demonstrating that art does not reside solely in the material world, but also in the realm of space, time, and experience.
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