Today we mostly see art through photos and reproductions. So in the end it almost doesn’t matter where the actual piece is. Soomer or later it’s gonna end up in your head, and that’s when things get interesting. I’m more interested in brains and memories than in site-specific works.


— Maurizio Cattelan

CROSSING AMERICA — the late Francesca Woodman is crossing a nation to meet herself in the future. ATM she has a retrospective at MOMA San Francsico, while Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective continues at the Guggenheim New York. This 1977 self-portrait by Woodman was the inspiration for 2 untitled 2007 installations by Cattelan, the first is essentially an exact sculptural installation of this photograph:http://www.stefanseiz.com/archives/2008/03/kunsthaus_bregenz_-_maurizio_cattelan.html In the second, and now more widely exhibited, Untitled, 2007 Cattelan presented Woodman’s polychrome figure in a large shipping crate as an installation object in the gallery. Finally, in 2012, after Cattelan moves out of the Guggenheim, Woodman’s show will travel from SF-MOMA to the Guggenheim, where her past self will inhabit the space her future-self-recreation hangs in today. And finally finally, in 2010 I recreated Cattelan’s crate for Woodman, installing myself as a living sculpture in it:http://vaneeesa.com/2010/11/07/maurizio-cattelan/ You can obtain a free, 3D, virtual copy of my Cattelan Crate here:https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/42642jeffdtaylor: Francesca Woodman, a photographer who committed suicide at age 22 in 1981, opens a show at the Guggenheim in March 2012. It is one not to miss. High-res
CROSSING AMERICA — the late Francesca Woodman is crossing a nation to meet herself in the future. ATM she has a retrospective at MOMA San Francsico, while Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective continues at the Guggenheim New York. This 1977 self-portrait by Woodman was the inspiration for 2 untitled 2007 installations by Cattelan, the first is essentially an exact sculptural installation of this photograph:
http://www.stefanseiz.com/archives/2008/03/kunsthaus_bregenz_-_maurizio_cattelan.html

In the second, and now more widely exhibited, Untitled, 2007 Cattelan presented Woodman’s polychrome figure in a large shipping crate as an installation object in the gallery.

Finally, in 2012, after Cattelan moves out of the Guggenheim, Woodman’s show will travel from SF-MOMA to the Guggenheim, where her past self will inhabit the space her future-self-recreation hangs in today. And finally finally, in 2010 I recreated Cattelan’s crate for Woodman, installing myself as a living sculpture in it:
http://vaneeesa.com/2010/11/07/maurizio-cattelan/

You can obtain a free, 3D, virtual copy of my Cattelan Crate here:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/42642

jeffdtaylor:

Francesca Woodman, a photographer who committed suicide at age 22 in 1981, opens a show at the Guggenheim in March 2012. It is one not to miss.

(via jeffdtaylor)