[design] Monkey Sea Voyage .9

To: artforum/talkback
Subject: homage to Matta-Clark's father and godfather
Date: 2003.06.06 13:45

Just before encountering THE BELL AND THE GLASS(
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibits/musstudies7.shtml ) 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.

[The movie TIME BANDITS was on local PBS last Saturday night, but I didn't
watch it except during channel surfing. The next chapter of I'M A BIG FAT
NOBODY might just be "quondam cum movies".]








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