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One-half a block from my apartment, a discarded calendar featuring a reproduction of Vasily Kandinsky's In the Black Square, 1923, trampled on the sidewalk.
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not familiar with Kandinsky's work, but I iintuit that there's some point to the fact that the painting being surrounded by a box, which essentially self-contextualizes the painting. By putting it on a program, which then creates all these separate copies of this painting in as many new contexts as there are copies of the calendar, you create all those levels of meaning for each copy that there is. So, then you have this copy which has been rained on and stepped on enough that it's ripped and grimy, and instead of destroying the painting, it essentially reinforces its themes...
4 comments:
not familiar with Kandinsky's work, but I iintuit that there's some point to the fact that the painting being surrounded by a box, which essentially self-contextualizes the painting. By putting it on a program, which then creates all these separate copies of this painting in as many new contexts as there are copies of the calendar, you create all those levels of meaning for each copy that there is. So, then you have this copy which has been rained on and stepped on enough that it's ripped and grimy, and instead of destroying the painting, it essentially reinforces its themes...
(I'm guessing... ignore me if I'm missing it.)
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Obviously you live in a fancy-ass neighborhood.
But I don't! I live in Columbia Heights!
Was the date of the calendar 1923 or is that the date of the piece?
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