<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">the architect</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">vs</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">the artist</span><br />vs<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">the interior designer</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“If a painter could by a single transformation take a three dimensional still life and paint it on a canvas into a natura morta,</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> could it be possible for the architect to take the natura morta of a painting and, by a single transformation, build it into a still life?</span>”<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/7113073043_9af808d0ca_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/7113073043_9af808d0ca_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 734px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7098/6966944754_e592a2e45d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7098/6966944754_e592a2e45d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 464px;" /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/6966944856_629cb71633_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/6966944856_629cb71633_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 495px;" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />sparse</span> (spärs) adj. spars·er, spars·est<br />"Occurring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals; <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">not thick or dense</span></span>."<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">1. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wall House II, 1970's.</span> "I believe in the social contract therefore I teach. I believe that the University is one of the last places that protects and preserves freedom, therefore teaching is also a socio/political act, among other things. I believe in books and the written word, therefore I fabricate works with the hope that they will be recorded in books. I am pragmatic and believe in keeping records. I believe to record is to bear witness. The book I wrote, Victims is to bear witness and to remember. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I believe in the density of the sparse. I believe in place and the spirit of place.</span>"<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hejduk">- John Hedjuk, </a></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hejduk">architect</a></span></span><br /></div></div><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br />2. </span></span><span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span></span>Davide Balula: The Buried Works: April 21st to June 16th 2012 <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Zarko%20Vijatovic">Galerie Frank Elbaz</a> "...<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">the artist modifies the architecture of the gallery </span></span>and installs an incubator for the creation of new paintings, a vivarium where canvases are naturally picking up pigmentation underground. The installation is composed of several tons of dirt, water, custom wood flooring, and <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">blank canvases buried under the floor of the gallery.</span></span> At the end of the exhibition, the paintings will be unearthed via customized trap doors. They will then be stretched, framed and dispersed into the world. A version of the exhibition as a one-night dinner will be served within the installation, consisting of cooked and raw ingredients based on edible dirt, roots and other seasonal produce. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">photo by Zarko Vijatovic</span><br /><br /><br />3. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Unknown interior</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> for an unknown family</span><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------</span>

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