MORNING CLEANING: JEFF WALL AND THE LARGE GLASS
2009; Oxford University Press; Volume: 32; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1467-8365.2009.00715.x
ISSN1467-8365
Autores Tópico(s)Visual Culture and Art Theory
ResumoJeff Wall's Morning Cleaning, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona , 1999, is a cinematographic digital transparency picturing the German Pavilion designed by Mies for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona and reconstructed in the 1980s. The tableau involves the arrested action of a male cleaner, oblivious to the gaze of the spectator, as he washes the windows separating the interior from an outdoor pool, where the morning sun illuminates Georg Kolbe's sculpture Dawn . Contrary to Michael Fried's reading of Morning Cleaning as a renewal of the antitheatrical aims of High Modernist painting, this essay looks to Duchamp's Large Glass as the model for its structuring tensions. Morning Cleaning is considered as a Duchampian delay in relation to the politics of modernist glass architecture in Wall's Kammerspiel essay, and as a ‘countermonument’ to the reconstructed pavilion as fetish, emptied of social meaning and the traumatic history of modernity.
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