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The Red Wall, 2004 - 2006 Digital print, latex paint on wall. This work is an on-going research project on architectural colour. Each
version of The Red Wall is a wall installation made up of two elements:
A large red wall; and a summary of the artist's research up to that
point, in the form of a text, graphic or photograph. Version I (The Red
Wall, Queens Museum, New York City, 2004) showed a fictional debate
between three figures prominent in 20th Century art and architecture:
Le Corbusier, Theo van Doesburg, and Donald Judd. The dialogue was
presented as a framed text mounted directly on the red-painted wall of
the "Corbusian" ramp which connects the two levels of the museum (below
and left)—and was also available as a pamphlet to be taken away by
museum visitors. Version II (El muro rojo, Laboratorio Arte Alameda,
Mexico City, 2005) is described on its own Projects Page. For Version
III (The Red Wall [Queens Museum], New York City, 2005), a pair of
digital prints were mounted adjacent to the red wall (below, middle).
The right print was an axonometric drawing of the installation, and the
left print was a detail from the first drawing in which the illusion of
depth was lost, resulting in a flat graphic composition. Version IV
(The Red Wall: Déductions consécutives troublantes [with Notes]), UKS,
Oslo, Norway, 2006) is a framed facsimile (image at bottom) of Le
Corbusier and Amedée Ozenfant's Déductions consécutives troublantes,
originally published in the October 1923 issue of Esprit Nouveau. The
text is a critique of a recent de Stijl exhibition in Paris and the
accompanying artist's notes bring the work back to the debate on
architectural polychromy started in Version I.
Photography: Ari Hiroshige.
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Terence Gower
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