"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Siah Armajani: Follow This Line, organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and curated by Clare Davies, Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with Victoria Sung, Assistant Curator, Walker Art Center."--colophon. Exhibition dates: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, September 9-December 30, 2018; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 20-June 2, 2019.--colophon. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Contributions to Design Quarterly. Sam Durant -- Profane illuminations : the early works / Hamed Yousefi -- Siah Armajani : Between zero and one / Victoria Sung -- "Imagine the Earth as a ball of twine" : Armajani's films / Eric Crosby -- Old world, odd world : Siah Armajani and American ordinary architecture / ValeĢrie Mavridorakis -- Siah Armajani : Public art and its problems / David Hodge -- Public works -- Public works -- Proposal for a bridge in Tehran : Landscapes / Nazgol Ansarinia -- Failing Armajani, Armajani failing / Barbad Golshiri -- Art is a schoolhouse and a tomb / Sam Durant -- Red-black thread -- Slavs and Tatars -- Manifesto : Public sculpture in the context of American democracy -- Persian period : 1955-1964 -- Notes on Dictionary for Building, 1974-1975 -- The essence of architectural space -- Notes on exile -- Contributions to Design Quarterly.
Summary:
In Tehran, children walking home from school would scrape their pencils against the walls, tracing their paths through the city and chanting "follow this line." Siah Armajani (born 1939) recounts that this simple gesture speaks to the desire to mark one's presence in space. 'Siah Armajani: Follow This Line' asks visitors to follow the artist across a shifting terrain, first within the context of pre-revolution Iran, and later, postwar and present-day America. Though Armajani is best known today for his works of public art--bridges, gazebos, reading rooms--located across the United States and Europe, this groundbreaking exhibition argues for a thoughtful reexamination of his studio as the site of a rich and generative practice. His works engage a range of references: from Persian calligraphy to the manifesto, letter and talisman; from poetry to mathematical equations and computer programming; from the abstract expressionist canvas to American vernacular architecture, Bauhaus design and Russian constructivism. Exhibition: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (09.09. - 30.12.2018) / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (20.02. - 02.06.2019).
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