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Article: Cildo Meireles at Galerie Lelong.(New York)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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For several decades, the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles has deployed simple, familiar objects and materials in formal arrangements and interactive environments that explore bodily self-awareness, global and institutional modes of order and control, and the relationships between rationalized space and open-ended experience. Two works recently installed at Galerie Lelong exemplify this practice in contrasting forms.
Strictu (2000) consists of a small wooden table flanked by a pair of chairs and two rows of stainless steel poles between which a chain, strung with handcuffs and iron balls, zigzags across the floor. On the table rests a quotation attributed to a Ku ...