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*Gigantic, impassive, surrounded by rubble, Oldenburg pours plaster
into a mould he has fashioned from corrugated cardboard.
He is making an oversized peanut.[1]*
Otto Hahn
One does not immediately grasp what one is seeing. Perhaps the object has been placed upside down, or stored away improperly; perhaps it is (deliberately) “ill-made”; perhaps it has been fabricated from an unusual material or belongs to a distant past. It resembles a piece of furniture, a box of medication, a battery, a geometry manual, a bicycle wheel, a house… Yet in the moment, observed from this particular angle or under this specific lighting, one hesitates. Form and colour alone remain. And for a brief instant, one believes, one perceives the primordial face of things, before they become—or become again—useful, familiar and, it must be said, somewhat unremarkable. When everything reassembles into a recognisable entity, we find ourselves both relieved and slightly disappointed. Louis Gary, it seems to me, seeks…
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*Gigantic, impassive, surrounded by rubble, Oldenburg pours plaster
into a mould he has fashioned from corrugated cardboard.
He is making an oversized peanut.[1]*
Otto Hahn
One does not immediately grasp what one is seeing. Perhaps the object has been placed upside down, or stored away improperly; perhaps it is (deliberately) “ill-made”; perhaps it has been fabricated from an unusual material or belongs to a distant past. It resembles a piece of furniture, a box of medication, a battery, a geometry manual, a bicycle wheel, a house… Yet in the moment, observed from this particular angle or under this specific lighting, one hesitates. Form and colour alone remain. And for a brief instant, one believes, one perceives the primordial face of things, before they become—or become again—useful, familiar and, it must be said, somewhat unremarkable. When everything reassembles into a recognisable entity, we find ourselves both relieved and slightly disappointed. Louis Gary, it seems to me, seeks…
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