My favourite wrapped object in Japan & Tadeusz Kantor’s 1964 manifesto on emballage.
“…there are many such possibilities inside it:
hope,
premonition,
temptation,
desire for the unknown,
and for the mystery.
Emballage.
Emballage.
Emballage...”
On our way to the Staten Island Ferry, we stopped and watched the cleaners prepare for an event through Noguchi’s Sunken Garden.
Earlier that week, we had looked into another Noguchi garden but instead watched the Vermont marble under the sun. @thomas__hutton
Old scans of older fragments from the Cornell Collection.
“As twentieth-century notions of artistic originality and genius took hold, however, the use of modern casts fell from favor. Viewed as cheap replicas and dusty specimens, the Cornell collection was abandoned and dispersed around the campus. For decades the casts were repurposed as doorstops, coat racks and bookends in faculty offices, or were neglected in university basements. Two World Wars transpired, and air quality across the globe deteriorated. Many of the ‘original’ Greek sculptures and Roman ‘copies’ were eroded, destroyed, or went missing.” — The Dark Wood by Danielle Mericle
Photographs by Annetta Alexandridis and Danielle Mericle
NOTES ON DEADLINESS—Through the Works of Gordon Matta-Clark // Short essay with collages; xeroxed, acetone transferred & scanned works // All original images sourced from MoMA // Sits on 1.2 mm thick bent steel sheet plinth // photos by @a.domican
