Now ,Aei November 10, 2006
James Dyett Gallery, Hayes Hall, UB Main Street Campus
Martin Hogue is assistant professor of architecture at Syracuse University. His recent research involved revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s ground breaking work of 1975 entitled “Fake Estates”. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, N.Y. for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in his piece. Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.
The results of Hogue’s reinterpretation of Matta-Clark’s work are presented in this exhibition, ,Aeu[Fake] Fake Estates,,Aeu specially created for the Dyett Gallery at UB. It includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual “excess of surveying,” inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of “real” sites, even small and unusable ones, such as an 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others which are thought to lack architectural potential.
Sponsored by the UB School of Architecture and Planning.
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