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Monkey Sea Voyage .9
2005.03.01 12:34
homage to Matta-Clark's father and godfather
2003.06.06 13:45
Just before encountering The Bell and the Glass at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this past Wednesday, I was walking down the stairs directly adjacent gallery 182 where The Bell and the Glass is installed. On the landing half way down these stairs is the entrance to the 20th century art curatorial offices, and on the wall next to the office door presently hangs Roberto Matta Echaurren's The Bachelors Twenty Years After. This painting is a fairly new acquisition of the PMA, and when I first saw it back in February it was hanging within the main contemporary art galleries (where a rather famous early Pollock currently hangs).
I didn't think of it on Wednesday, but last night it dawned on me that on Wednesday morning I submitted a post at talkback re: Matta-Clark (son of Roberto Matta Echaurren and godson of Marcel Duchamp) which was not initially accepted, then I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (because I was extremely bored at home) where I unexpectedly encountered The Bachelors Twenty Years After, and then unexpectedly encountered The Bell and the Glass.
As I already mentioned, I don't know much about Gordon Matta-Clark, but for some reason I became unexpected/unknowingly close (albeit with degrees of separation) to him on Wednesday.
I'm going back to the PMA today to take pictures and pay some more homage.
ps 2005.03.01
It isn't mentioned anywhere specifically, but part of The Bell and the Glass includes video projection of portions of the 1956 Duchamp/Sweeney interview where we see Duchamp in front of The Large Glass saying, "There is a symmetry in the cracking, the two crackings are symmetrically arranged and there is more, almost an intention there, an extra--a curious intention that I am not responsible for, a ready-made intention, in other words, that I love and respect."
Museum Studies 7 reenacts Museum Studies 6.1 which reenacts wavelengths that occurred at the Philadelphia Museum of Art almost 50 years ago.
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