A CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH DAN DUBOWITZ

Posted by Mike Rigby

After Tuesdays post on the fantastic Peeps Project. Who should I bump into on my way to work this morning? but the artist himself Dan Dubowitz. We had a really interesting chat, during which he told me about a book on the project soon to be published. I had a sneak peak of the proof (in his hand), designed by Axis.

Dan see’s the installations as a kind of artistic restoration project and insists that even he doesn’t know how many there are. Apparently some of them have been sealed off from public view by further building work in the area, left to be discovered by some future generation.

I think what impressed me the most was his determination to retain the subtlety of the work, by resisting the temptation to point them out in any obvious way, or to create some kind of sculpture trial. Great stuff.

Posted on Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 11:53 am by Mike Rigby. Filed under ART, SCULPTURE. Follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.