Tagged: MASS MOCA

May 28, 2020

IF SOL LEWITT DREW HOLISTIC FORMS

My first encounter with the wall drawings of Sol Lewitt was at Mass MoCA. That was something like 10 years ago. And I have only now realized something fundamental about Lewitt’s drawings: they are...

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October 26, 2017

LIGHT AND DEATH

People who have had near death experiences typically describe the experience as a passage into light. I could not help thinking about this as we experienced James Turrell’s Perfectly Clear (1991) at Mass MOCA....

“The nature of space-matter, being soul-like, is such that the more whole it becomes, the more transparent, the more it seems to melt, the more it realizes itself, releases its own inner reality, the more transparent it becomes, the more transcendent.” Alexander.

“When an object becomes observable, measurable, and quantifiable, it already has become civilized; the disciplinary organization of civilization extends its subjection to the object in the very way it makes it knowable.” Lynch.

“The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read is that of nature; all other books are taken from it. And in them there are the mistakes and misinterpretations of men.” Gaudi.

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IF SOL LEWITT DREW HOLISTIC FORMS

LIGHT AND DEATH

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