Laurent La Gamba
Car camouflage
Homochromie (Pro-cryptic installations ‘People with their cars’ series)
Acrylic on protective suit
2002
Andreas and his yellow plane
Homochromie
Acrylic on protective suit
2002
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Untitled
Offset print on paper,
endless copies
1991
Untitled
Offset print on paper,
endless copies
1990
June 19, 2007
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Footnote
Drop City
The Ultimate Painting
Drop Artists
1966
Pythagorean Tree
Drop Artists
1967
June 6, 2007
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto is celebrated for his multiple series of black and white photographs that explore the themes of time, memory, dreams, and the history of representation.
U.A. Playhouse
New York
1978
North Atlantic Ocean
Cape Breton Island
1996
C1006
2004
Sea of Buddha
1995
Richard Chartier & Taylor Deupree
Specification.Fifteen (45:05)
2006
For this collaboration, sound artists Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree were invited by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, to create a new live work inspired by the Seascapes series of renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto on the occasion of his retrospective exhibition. The result is this live recording, Specification.Fifteen. This work premiered on March 30, 2006 in front of the curved panoramic window of the Museum’s Lerner Room as the sun set across the city’s skyline. Specification.Fifteen evokes the stillness and opposing yet related spaces of Sugimoto’s Seascapes, which suggest infinitesimal change and variation under a seemingly uniform surface.
May 19, 2007
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Ken Lum
Mirror Works
1998
Ken Lum (1956, Canada) presents the mirror to us not only as an object, but also as a metaphor for spatial reflection. By hanging several “mirror works” in a relationship of mutual correspondence, he examines the picture space with the simple accent of the wooden frame, yet at the same time, he also addresses the surrounding space that expands endlessly in manifold branches.
“The mirror is a utopia as much as it is a place without a place. In the mirror I see myself where I am not; in an unreal space which appears virtually behind the surface; I am there where I am not, a kind of shadow that endows me with my own visibility, shows me where I am absent. But the mirror sends me back to the place I am actually occupying; from the mirror I discover myself to be absent in the place where I am, as I see myself there”.
The anonymous family photos that the artist has stuck into the wooden frames, create another level of meaning that hangs like a narrative veil between space and mirrored space. One’s own counterpart (the other me in the mirror) becomes entangled in the sentimental surroundings of “strangers’” snapshots. Reality and fiction, layers and stories, foreground and background merge into one another.
May 18, 2007
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Laurie Anderson
Walking & Falling
1990
I wanted you. And I was looking for you. But I couldn’t find you. I wanted you. And I was looking for you all day. But I couldn’t find you. I couldn’t find you. You’re walking. And you don’t always realize it, but you’re always falling. With each step you fall forward slightly. And then catch yourself from falling. Over and over, you’re falling. And then catching yourself from falling. And this is how you can be walking and falling at the same time.
