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Article: "L'OBJET DESORIENTE".(various artists, installation, Musee des Arts Decoratifs)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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Like an Unidentified Flying Carpet, "L'objet deoriente" (The disoriented object) landed in the glass-roofed exhibition hall of the museum with a crew of nine contemporary Moroccan artists and a cargo of some four thousand everyday items from Morocco's urban bazaars and rural markets. Suffice it to say that the "disorientation" was hardly limited to the objects on display. What to make of this giant installation, composed of everything from bread trays and butter churns to jogging shoes and motorbike seats, meticulously ordered by the artists into a series of geometric modules to create a kind of oriental carpet in 3-D? A brochure handed out at the entrance provided a ...
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