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Article: Alice Aycock. (exhibition at John Weber Gallery, New York, NY)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Best known for such outdoor projects as Maze, 1972, and A Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels, 1975, Alice Aycock is also a committed draftsman who has produced an extensive corpus of drawings. More than simply plans for projects, Aycock's drawings are works in their own right, fantasies on paper that echo the history of visionary design, stretching back to Piranesi and Boullee. At the same time, they exemplify their own moment, announcing the shift from the phenomenological environment of Minimalism to a metaphorized architecture or earthwork. The development of land art and built structures during the early '70s opened up new possibilities for drawing. If the ...