{"id":2277,"date":"2011-01-12T20:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T00:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2012-04-01T22:53:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T02:53:20","slug":"texas-ranging-03-marfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/texas-ranging-03-marfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Ranging 03. Marfa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 09 Spent much of the day at The Chinati Foundation<\/a> , on the grand tour. The work feels…not exactly off-the-grid (despite being off the grid), but definitely not on the grid, either. It\u2019s a pilgrimage site, a more stubborn, wilder, but gentried cousin of DIA Beacon. Chinati is a dynamic testimonial to Judd\u2019s persistent, consistent vision, to his self-confidence. It\u2019s incredibly smart, subtle and stark. Many of the works are powerful (by that I mean, precise, beautifully realized, well-sited, elegant, simple); the time of the desert and the all-dayness of the tour means you drop down softly into a different expectation of time, slow down enough by the 2nd hour to begin to have a nuanced relationship to details. Not only of the work, but of interior|exterior, here|there, natural|constructed,\u00a0 interior|exterior, pink|white, brick|wood, antelope|aluminum, straight|curved… the list is not exhaustible. This acuteness extends to sound (train moans, grasses hissing, the squeak of\u00a0 tree limbs, and the rainstorm sounds of corrugated metal roofing expanding in the heat), and tactility (more wind, more cold, more warm sunlight, plusher cat\u2019s fur, specific gravel and sand under foot).\u00a0 This sensing extended to the hike I took on a rare stretch of open-to-the-public ranch land. The desert\u2019s conceit of monotony was sharpened and pulled apart into micro-theatrics after experiencing 6 identical U-shaped buildings of fluorescent bulbs (Flavin), a vast hall of smashed and \u201csexually-fitted\u201d candy-colored car parts (Chamberlain), impossibly pristine rectilinear aluminum iterations (Judd) and twin cylinders of eternally shiny copper (Horn).
\nMinimalism paved the way for so many art (per)mutations. The hybrid endeavors evident at Chinati have reified into sacred forms, but art|sci, public practice, art + the every day, all the expanded fields are still plastic and expanding…<\/p>\n

John Chamberlain: \u201cBeing an artist is an initiative occupation…Art is one of the few things in the world that is\u00a0 never boring, and it costs nothing. You don\u2019t have to own it, you just have to perceive it; art is free. As an artist I give away more than I would if I ran a beauty shop.\u201d<\/em>
\n(not any more, necessarily…)<\/p>\n

\"Judd.<\/a>
Judd. concrete works.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Judd,<\/a>
Judd, aluminum. Pronghorn antelope. Judd, concrete. Remains of volcano.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Carl Andre poem. Funny to find New Jersey here in Marfa. The Texas petrochem landscape is New Jersey squared. Yes I know there\u2019s no petrochem in Marfa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dan<\/a>
Dan Flavin (realized posthumously, I was sad to find out).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"John<\/a>
John Chamberlain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ilya Kabakov, 1993, 7 years after Chernobyl (and resembling the Robert Polidori photo of an abandoned Chernobyl school house).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is my trailer at El Cosmico<\/a>, with Dept of Homeland Security Border Patrol<\/a> in the background:<\/p>\n

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…and yes, this baby trailer has a knitted cozy:
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Marfa sits at 5000\u2019. The sky is a dome, with stars edge to edge. The moon is a mean sliver. I took a bath in the outdoor tub adjacent to my trailer. I had dinner with Erika Blumenfeld<\/a> and Dahr Jamail<\/a>, photographer and journalist, who just finished 2 months of intensive work on post-BP Gulf toxicity. Frightening. Look here<\/a> and here<\/a> for details, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan 09 Spent much of the day at The Chinati Foundation , on the grand tour. The work feels…not exactly off-the-grid (despite being off the grid), but definitely not on the grid, either. It\u2019s a pilgrimage site, a more stubborn, wilder, but gentried cousin of DIA Beacon. Chinati is a dynamic testimonial to Judd\u2019s persistent, … <\/p>\n

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