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| Following
the success of Seen/Unseen Known/Unknown in 2000, Walter De Maria was invited to collaborate with Tadao Ando on a much larger room installation opening in July 2004. For this project, American Burnish was hired to gild 27 sets of three different geometric mahogany forms. |
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of the Chichu Art Museum on the island of Naoshima |
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| Walter
De Maria’s elegant geometric rods inspired us to cut each copper- rich “red” gold leaf into thirds. By laying the gold thirds in mathematically precise rows across the base and up each form, we created a barely perceptible linear movement. The result-an undercurrent of visual harmony from one form to the next among all 27 sets. |
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Marlene
gilds #27,
the last square. |
Nobuko
at the end
of gilding 27 bases |
Bill
lays the final leaf on
triangle #27. |
Deborah
lays the last
piece of gold leaf on a pentagon top. |
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| In
the final week of gilding, Michael and Elizabeth prepare the finished sets for shipping. |
Begun in 2002, the project was finished in 2004. |
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