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Ah, fuck. I hated Tilted Arc, and then I went to Dia Beacon and I was like OH! This is what you’re trying to do. I get it now. I was randomly on 6th Ave when his MOMA show was being broken down and trucked away and THAT was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. All these gigantic oxidized iron slabs on a parade of huge flatbed trucks.

 

ETA They’re steel? TIL.

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Awww, fuck. Dia Beacon is awesome, but then everywhere one might run into his stuff, is also great.

RIP - a (real) giant.

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To fix giant perviously spelled ginat.
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I went back and found video I took when I walked through one of his pieces at Gagosian in 2016. When I walked through it initially, it felt very meditative and wanted to capture it. His ability to manipulate massive pieces of steel into something so graceful was astonishing.

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Years of walking around his torques and trying to grasp how they actually powerfully charge and change the space around them. And then there’s the infinitely beautiful and long-term changing surfaces.

But also the dramatic black paint stick works on (I think) paper that one of my artist friends understatedly described as “very strong.”

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