HOMAGE TO A HOMAGE

14/10/10 11:27 Filed in: audiovisual : installation


HOMAGE TO A HOMAGE
Looped video monitor. Scale 1:10. 480X480
2010


Throughout the 1950s Josef Albers had created the works in his Homage to the Square series in sizes ranging from 16 x 16 inches to 40 x 40 inches. When asked by a leading critic on a visit to his Connecticut studio - ‘Professor Albers, in 1962 you suddenly began to work in the size of 48 x 48, and I wondered if this was your reaction as a European to the vaster scale of life in America or in fact to the American attempt to conquer space and reach larger dimensions?’ Albers looked at him and said ‘young man that was the year we got a bigger station wagon.’





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