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Article: Vito Acconci at Barbara Gladstone.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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This exhibition, "Spoken Rooms," reproduced three of Vito Acconci's multimedia installations from the 1970s. With their insistent theatricalization of space, these works raise the question of Minimalism's legacy for the art of the '70s. In so doing, they open the way for a possible encounter between the concerns of that decade and our own.
Originally created in 1974, Plot divided the gallery space into 10 scenes, meandering "chapters" separated by long, narrow black curtains. The first chapter, "Secrets of the Skin Trade," raises the specter of bodily disaggregation: a square wooden panel hung by chains from the ceiling is pierced by knives in different areas ...