Rippin' for Gordon - #014 - Musée d'Art Moderne

Susanne Pagé (ed)

Musée d'Art Moderne
de la Ville de Paris

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Graphic design:
Viviane Linois

Production:
Sabine Brismontier assisted by Audrey Chenu

English translation:
Caroline Taylor-Bouché

Photoengraving: Fotoprim, Paris

Flashing: Typophot, Paris

Paper: BVS mat 135 g, Muller Ménage

Printing: Imprimerie Hérissey, Évreux

First printed  by imprimerie Hérissey in Évreux, in February 1998

Cover:
Panamarenko, U-Control III, 1972, wood, polyester film, carbon,
bamboo, metal
Sonia Delaunay, Rhythme, 1938, oil on canvas
Robert Delauney:
Rhythme nº 1, 1938, oil on canvas
L'Équipe de Cardiff, 1912-1913, oil on canvas
Nu à la coiffeuse, 1915, oil on canvas
Symphonie colorée, 1915-1917, oil on canvas
Rhythme, joie de vivre, 1930, oil on canvas
Tour Eiffel, 1926, oil on canvas

© Paris-Musées, 1998
Éditions des musées de la Ville de Paris
28, rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, 75002 Paris
© ADAGP: J.-M. Alberta, V. Adami, Arman, J. Arp, M. Barré,
C. Boltanski, P. Bonnard, L. Bourgeois, M. Bourget, G. Braque,
V. Brauner, P. Buraglio, D. Buren, J.-M. Bustamante, César,
M. Chagall, G. Chaissac, R. Combas, J. Crotti, D. Dezeuze,
R. Dufy, A. Derain, G. De Chico, M. Ernst, Étienne-Martin,
J. Fautrier, L.-T. Foujita, P.-A. Gette, A. Gleizes, J. Gris,
M. Gromaire, J. Hélion, A. Herbin, F. Hybert, F. Kupka,
H. Laurens, B. Lavier, A. Leccia, F. Léger, E. Leroy, A. Lhote,
A. Masson, J. Metzinger, J. Monory, A. Messager, A. Ozenfant,
F. Picabia, J.-P. Pincemin, B. Rancillac, J.-P. Raynaud, M. Raysse,
G. Rouault, Sarkis, T. Schütte, K. Schwitters, P. Soulages,
C. Soutine, D. Spoerri, H. Télémaque, J. Tinguely, J. Torrès-Garcia,
K. Van Dongen, C. Viallat, Villeglé, M. de Vlaminck, É. Vuillard,
O. Zadkine
© Succession Henri Matisse: H. Matisse
© Succession Picasso, 1998: P. Picasso
© L&M Services, B.V. Amsterdam 980102: R. et S. Delaunay
© M. Abakanowicz, G. Anselmo, G. Baselitz, A, Charlton,
L. Fabro, B. Frize, M. Merz, Ming, J.-L. Moulène, J.-L. Mylayne,
O. Mosset, Panamarenko, J. Reigl, G. Richter, C. Rutault,
E. Spalletti, N. Toroni
Rights reserved for the other reproductions

Registration of Copyright February 1998
ISBN 2-87900-109-9
Union Distribution F7 4174

Photographic acknowledgements:
Photothéque des musées de la Ville de Paris
Photos: Chevalier, Delepelaire, Philippe Joffre, Karin Maucotel,
Patrick Pierrain, Jean-Yves Trocaz, D.R.
© André Morin, MAM/ARC
Christophe Alter © Paris-Musées

12,5 x 24,0 cm, 146p, softcover

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On 1 October 2017 I ripped the 146 pages from Susanne Pagé (ed) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, tore them in half and threw them in the Hole I've been Diggin' for Gordon in a basement at an undisclosed location in Antwerpen since 20 February 2006.
The title refers to Gordon Matta-Clark whose last and major work ‘Office Baroque’ in Antwerpen I illegally visited at the start of my career as an artist. The performance/installation evolved into a ‘mash-up’ with ingredients from the works of various avantgarde artists from the 70’s. For instance a slant row of florescent lights inspired by Dan Flavin takes care of lightning and an endless ladder as imagined by Vito Acconci makes it possible to get in and out of the hole. The work was made visible through a number of side actions and performances where I used some of the dirt I had been digging up. Most of the dirt was used to fill up James Lee Byars' tomb.
As of 9 September 2017 the Hole is filled with precious books from my private library.

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