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 | William Anastasi
One Gallon High Gloss Industrial Enamel, Thrown (1968/89)
One Gallon High Gloss Industrial Enamel, Poured on an Incision (1969/89)
Paint
1414 Monterey, 3rd floor January 13, 1989, 10 minutes, 6B
April 15, 1989, 32 minutes, 4B
Permanent installations
Graphite
1414 Monterey, 2nd floor |
| | One Gallon High Gloss Industrial Enamel, Thrown and One Gallon High Gloss Industrial Enamel, Poured on an Incision are descriptions of the artist's process as well as the titles for his conceptual works. For each of the permanent works, the artist prescribed deliberate limits: he selected a wall, chose graphite of a specific hardness, blindfolded himself, and drew for a preset time period. Within those limits, his body size determined the dimensions of the blind drawings. He made April 15, 1989, 32 minutes, 4B publicly. |  |
|  | " In 1963 I did drawings in India ink that I called Constellations. I did them blind, closing my eyes and listening to Wanda Landowska's recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier, not following the sound, but just doing it as a period of time so I would know when to stop. I did 96, one for each Prelude and one for each Fugue. The drawings were made of dots. I found that if I didn't look where I was putting the dots, it turned out better than if I did look." |
| | "By 1964 I was doing gestural line drawings with graphite in a lead-holder. They ranged in dimension from 11" x 8" to 45" x 35". My intention was to forget drawing, to forget art history, to forget art, to forget myself, if possible. I have continued this work to the present and have found that the distancing ability improves steadily. The activity affords minutes or hours of greatly appreciated tranquility, and I am left with an object which is a kind of literal record of what my hands and arms were doing during that interval." |  |
|  | William Anastasi
American, born 1933 |
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