{"id":531,"date":"2009-05-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/05\/light_as_a_stringed_instrument\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T11:00:00","slug":"light_as_a_stringed_instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/05\/light_as_a_stringed_instrument.html","title":{"rendered":"Light as a stringed instrument – the sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Seattle artist team known as Lead Pencil exhibited Arrival at 2 a.m.<\/i><\/a> in 2007…<\/p>\n

\"leadpencil5.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>the piece reminded a lot of people of Mariele Neudecker’s The Internal Slipping Out of the World at Large<\/i><\/a> from 2000.<\/p>\n

\"Mariele-Neudecker_ndk13.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Much talk ensued, with little in the way of conclusion. Since then, other examples of the form have continued to circulate, suggesting that Lead Pencil cannot borrow what is already widely distributed.<\/p>\n

(Grand Central Station<\/i>, anonymous, probably from the 1950s, from Corbis<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Lygia Pape<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"LygiaPapelight.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Simon Aldridge<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"SimonAldridge.jpg\"<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

Jim Hirschfield<\/a> has been working with monofilament as a kind of stringed light harp since the early 1980s.
\"JimHirshfield.jpg\"<\/span>Hirschfield:<\/p>\n

I have been using monofilaments to investigate the phenomenon that results from the creation of ephemeral planes that pass through, divide, and ultimately become an integral aspect of the space in which they exist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He’s interested in changing space without occupying it, or, as Wallace Stevens put it in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

I do not know which to prefer,
\n
The beauty of inflections
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Or the beauty of innuendoes,
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The blackbird whistling
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Or just after.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fred Sandback<\/a> is the master of ephemeral planes.<\/p>\n

\"Sandback.Zwirner.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Since his death, Alyson Shotz<\/a> has been coming up fast on the inside rail.<\/p>\n

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Painters have a stake here too.<\/p>\n

Kate Shepherd<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Margie Livingston<\/a><\/p>\n

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What Wayne Thiebaud<\/a> said years ago, that art is more about likeness than difference, still holds true and is worth remembering the next time a confluence is understood to be a copy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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