[NetBehaviour] Andre

Alan Sondheim sondheim at panix.com
Tue Sep 11 15:16:51 CEST 2007



Andre is interesting in this context, I think of his work, like Buren's, 
as a gathering of the environment, with Buren there's more of a null 
point, painting degree zero, with Andre there's something about the 
materials and the leverage in the landscape, urban, gallery, whatever; 
2000 9/11 references the cultural to the point of drop-out - first, the 
number killed with in the 2000s, second it occurred the year after the 
degree of repetition, third, if anyone remembers, one, two, many Vietnams, 
fourth, nuclear and terrorist proliferation are increasingly part of the 
landscape, fifth, the repetition is related to the reading of names going 
on at this very moment, sixth, the whole thing is granite/tombstone in a 
double mourning, for victims but also for an inescapable loss of innocence 
tied to the very physics of our universe. This isn't Jiri Kolar's apple.
- Alan



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