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Flat Field Works Variant #2

2015

Andrea Zittel

Horizontal and vertical panels in different materials and colors delineate spaces in the green environment. These spaces have no clear function. You can read a book there, daydream, play hide-and-seek, etc.

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Details

  • Plan number: Z07
  • Zone: Zone East
  • Title: Flat Field Works Variant #2
  • Creator: Andrea Zittel
  • Date: 2015
  • Material: wood, aluminum, concrete, stones
  • Acquisition: donation by Middelheim Promotors
  • Object number: MID.B.616

Andrea Zittel is interested in how people interact with her artworks. She hopes that the structures make us think. Why do we view a horizontal plane 45 centimeters high as a seat, and a horizontal plane 75 centimeters high as a table? Do we experience every vertical plane as a partition or wall? Why shouldn’t we be allowed to sit on the “table panel,” or stand on the “chair surface”? And perhaps the wall is freestanding and therefore doesn’t really form a barrier.

American contemporary artist Andrea Zittel explores how we organize ourselves in everyday life. This inspires her to create spaces, furniture, clothing, utensils, and even food. In doing so, her artistic practice is often situated between art and architecture. Panels, according to Zittel, are the building blocks of our world. We live on horizontal panels: for example, floors, tables, benches, streets. Vertical panels bear messages: walls, screens, paintings, billboards, etc.

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