CategoriesMedium and Techniques
Site-Specific Art
Art made for a particular place, whose meaning depends on that location's physical form, history or social life.
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Site-specific work is conceived for one place and changes, or loses its sense, if moved. Frescoes and altarpieces were always made for particular walls. The modern idea took shape in the late 1960s, as Minimalist and Land artists turned against portable objects that could go anywhere. Daniel Buren labelled his striped interventions work in situ, and his columns in the Palais-Royal courtyard, Les Deux Plateaux (1985–86), answer the arcades around them.
Gordon Matta-Clark cut openings through buildings due for demolition, as in Conical Intersect (1975) in Paris. The practice widened to social histories: Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum (1992) rearranged the holdings of the Maryland Historical Society to expose the history of slavery, and Tatzu Nishi builds furnished rooms around public statues so visitors meet them at eye level. Look for how the work answers its setting's light, architecture and past.
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