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Singular Spaces: The Power And The Passion Of Spanish Art Environments, Jo Farb Hernandez
Singular Spaces: The Power And The Passion Of Spanish Art Environments, Jo Farb Hernandez
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The art environments of Spain – like those the world over – display an astounding conceptual creativity and a vernacular, seat-of-the-pants approach to construction that makes use of locally available found, natural, and recycled objects as well as fabricated components built from scratch. Each result is unique, revealing each creator-builder’s interests, challenges, and concerns as they have developed over the course of a lifetime; as such, it is easy to understand why art environments are so complex. And because we are able to physically enter into and explore the constructions as visitors, we complete the artworks in the same way …